Willow Tree Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Salford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.398 miles
Published by Salford City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Willow Tree Primary School is a primary school in Salford for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 October 2024. Salford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Willow Tree 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 | 0.398 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
- For Reception in 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.398 miles away, the 7th shortest of 26 Salford primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- The Reception last distance in 2026 was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2015, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 73 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 54 offers went to first-choice families, and 19 first-choice families (26%) were not offered a place.
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 62% at the expected standard, 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and 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
- 2 Greenland Street, Salford, M6 5TJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Salford
- Pupils on roll
- 469 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 47.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at this school are polite, charismatic and friendly.”
- “They readily welcome visitors and confidently engage others in thoughtful conversation.”
- “Pupils relish their education and their experience of school life.”
To improve
- “However, the school has not gone far enough in identifying the key knowledge and skills that pupils should gain in handwriting.”
- “The school has set out a progressive overview, but, sometimes, staff are unclear about the specific information that they should teach pupils to help them to become competent and fluent writers.”
- “However, occasionally, staff do not address mistakes that pupils make in their written work, notably in spelling, grammar and punctuation content.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 November 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) | 62% | 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: 73 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 54 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.
- Holy Family VA RC Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lark Hill Community Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Luke's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Summerville Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St George's CofE Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's RC Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's Centre 1.0 mi Good Last distance published