River View Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Salford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.458 miles
Published by Salford City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
River View Community Primary School is a primary school in Salford for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 September 2023. Salford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
River View Community 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 | 0.458 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 distance offered was 0.458 miles, 11th shortest of the 26 Salford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 0.53 miles).
- Every applicant was offered a place in 2 of the 12 years with a published Reception outcome; the 2026 last distance was nearer the school than in 2015.
- Reception 2026 drew 69 first-choice applications for 59 offers; first-choice families received 59 offers, and 10 first-choice families (14%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 48% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- 1 Wheaters Street, Off Lower Broughton, Salford, M7 1QZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Salford
- Pupils on roll
- 521 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at River View, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), are happy to come to school.”
- “They described their learning as ‘fun’.”
- “The school has high expectations for what all pupils can achieve academically.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, pupils do not have enough opportunities to build and connect their knowledge and therefore deepen their learning.”
- “Occasionally, this training does not have the impact that it should.”
- “For example, the programme to help pupils who find reading more difficult to catch up with their peers is sometimes not delivered consistently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 November 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) | 48% | 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: 69 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.
- The Friars Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Cathedral School of St Peter and St John RC Primary 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Boniface RC Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Philip's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Sebastian's RC Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lower Kersal Community Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St George's CofE Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published