Beal Vale Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Oldham
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
Every applicant was offered a place
From Oldham Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2022–2023 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Beal Vale Primary School is a primary school in Oldham for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 February 2024. Oldham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2024 entry.
Beal Vale 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 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 drew 25 first-choice applications for 28 offers; 24 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- There are 25.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 30.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Oldham.
- Some 34.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, compared with a middle figure of 28.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Oldham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Oldham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Salts Street, Shaw, Salts Street, Shaw, Oldham, OL2 7SY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Oldham
- Pupils on roll
- 202 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to belong to this family-orientated and nurturing school.”
- “They said that everyone is welcome here regardless of their ethnicity, gender or culture.”
- “Pupils are happy and keen to learn.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, the curriculums are new and have not been implemented fully.”
- “Teachers are not as confident about what should be taught and when pupils should learn this content.”
- “As a result, pupils do not progress through these curriculums as well as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 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) | 66% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 24 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 Oldham.
- East Crompton St James CofE Primary School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rushcroft Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Crompton Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- East Crompton St George's CofE School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE Primary School High Crompton 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Buckstones Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged
- St Joseph's RC Junior, Infant and Nursery School, A Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Blackshaw Lane Primary & Nursery School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published