Bare Trees Primary School

Community school·Primary school Oldham·OL9 0DX
Composite score
31.6
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#13,137
National rank
#1983
In North West
#71
In Oldham
Top 89%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
45%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
98%
64 first choices, 66 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
147
any preference, for 66 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9920220.9420230.9420241.0020250.972026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Bare Trees Primary School yet. Oldham does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
662
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
35.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
93.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
26.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,011
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Bare Trees Primary School at a glance

Located in Oldham, Bare Trees Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 662 pupils aged 3 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 45% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 2.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 98% of the families who made Bare Trees Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 6.7%. There are about 26.5 pupils per teacher. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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