Diggle School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 3–11 · Oldham
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Oldham Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Diggle School is a primary school in Oldham for ages 3–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2023. Oldham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Diggle 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 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 80% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 drew 27 first-choice applications for 30 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of 62 applications for Reception 2026, 8 (13%) came from families living outside Oldham, and 4 offers went to them.
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
- Sam Road, Diggle, Oldham, OL3 5PU
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Oldham
- Pupils on roll
- 169 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 April 2023
Strengths
- “Diggle School has a friendly and supportive atmosphere.”
- “Pupils are polite and well mannered.”
- “They cherish the strong relationships that they have with their teachers.”
To improve
- “Even so, in a small number of subjects, some teachers do not deliver some aspects of the curriculums as leaders intend.”
- “As a result, in these subjects, some pupils do not learn the knowledge that they need.”
- “In a small number of subjects, leaders’ work on the curriculum is in its early days.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 80% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 27 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 27 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.
- St Chad's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Delph Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Trinity CofE Dobcross Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenfield Primary School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenfield St Mary's CofE School 2.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Anne's CofE Lydgate Primary School 2.8 mi Standards maintained
- Friezland Primary School 2.8 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published