Light Oaks Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Salford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Salford City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Light Oaks Infant School is a primary school in Salford for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 July 2022. Salford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Light Oaks Infant 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 48 of the 74 other Salford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in 4 of the 10 earlier Reception years with a published outcome, and the distance swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception entry in 2026, there were 69 first-choice applications for 78 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 15.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 30.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Salford.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Salford schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Lancaster Road, Lancaster Rd, Salford, M6 8LU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Salford
- Pupils on roll
- 255 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 July 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils and children in the early years are happy and feel safe at school.”
- “They enjoy good relationships with one another and they make plenty of friends.”
- “Pupils said that staff listen carefully to any concerns that they have.”
To improve
- “Some older pupils’ concerns about behaviour are mostly about occasional high levels of noise.”
- “Despite these positive changes to the curriculum, in a very small number of subject areas leaders are still in the process of finalising the essential knowledge, including vocabulary, that staff should teach to children in the early years and to pupils in key stage 1.”
- “However, on occasions, some staff do not use the agreed content of the school’s curriculum as the basis for checking what pupils know and remember.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 September 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 69 first-preference applications, 78 offers in total, 69 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 Salford.
- Light Oaks Junior School 0.0 mi Not judged
- St Luke's RC Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's CofE Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Luke's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grosvenor Road Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Summerville Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Clarendon Road Community Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Augustine's CofE Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published