Glodwick Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Greater Manchester, Oldham
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
Every applicant was offered a place
From Oldham Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2023 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Glodwick Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Greater Manchester, Oldham for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 26 February 2025. Oldham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2024 entry.
Glodwick Infant and Nursery School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 91 first-choice applications for 86 offers; 82 offers went to first-choice families, and 9 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- At its February 2025 inspection Ofsted found standards maintained, following an Outstanding grade in February 2019.
- There are 38.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 24.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Oldham.
- Of its pupils, 20.3% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Oldham is 29.4%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Oldham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Glodwick Road, Greater Manchester, OL4 1AJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Oldham
- Pupils on roll
- 365 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 38.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 26 February 2025
Strengths
- “This is an exceptional school.”
- “Pupils live and breathe its inspirational vision, ‘be the best we can be’.”
- “The foundations of pupils’ exceptional attitudes to their learning are set in the Nursery and Reception Years.”
To improve
- “While pupils’ rates of absence remain high, they are improving significantly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 91 first-preference applications, 86 offers in total, 82 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Oldham.
- Alexandra Park Junior School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Horton Mill Community Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Roundthorn Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good
- Greenhill Academy 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Clarksfield 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Anne's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Broadfield Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenacres Primary Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published