Clifton Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Manchester, 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 🔒
Clifton Primary School is a primary school in Manchester, Salford for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 2 March 2023. Salford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Clifton Primary 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
- In 2024/25, 42% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- With 17 first-choice applications for 25 offers in Reception 2026, its 0.7 first choices per offer was the lowest of 73 Salford primary schools.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, but places ran out in 2 of the 11 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Free school meals eligibility is 41.7% of pupils, compared with a middle figure of 32.4% 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
- Wroe Street, Clifton, Swinton, Manchester, M27 6PF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Salford
- Pupils on roll
- 271 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 2 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, enjoy attending this caring, friendly school.”
- “Pupils are confident that staff will listen and support them if they have any worries.”
- “This helps pupils to feel safe at school.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders are less clear about the building blocks of knowledge that pupils must gain.”
- “On occasion, this hinders teachers in designing learning.”
- “It also makes it harder for pupils to link new knowledge to earlier learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 May 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) | 42% | 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: 17 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 17 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.
- St Mark's RC Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Mossfield Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wardley CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's RC Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- The Deans Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Charles' RC Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Augustine's CofE Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published