St Mark's RC Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Manchester, Salford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.046 miles
Published by Salford City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mark's RC Primary School is a primary school in Manchester, Salford for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 July 2024. Salford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
St Mark's RC 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 | 0.046 mi |
| 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 Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.046 miles from the school, the shortest of 26 Salford primary schools with a published last distance.
- The Reception last distance in 2026 was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2015, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 12 years.
- For Reception 2026, there were 43 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 13 first-choice families (30%) were not offered a place.
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 57% met expected standard, 2nd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Salford that have results.
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
- Queensway, Clifton, Swinton, Manchester, M27 8QE
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Salford
- Pupils on roll
- 235 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this happy and caring school.”
- “They have positive relationships with staff.”
- “Pupils appreciate how well cared for they are by kind and nurturing staff.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, pupils have fewer opportunities to link new learning with earlier knowledge.”
- “From time to time, this affects some pupils’ ability to recall and build on what they know already.”
- “Pupils’ knowledge in these subjects is not as secure as it is in others.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 September 2024 (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) | 57% | 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: 43 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Clifton Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mossfield Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's RC Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Augustine's CofE Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wardley CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Deans Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grosvenor Road Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published