SF School Facts UK

Primary school in Manchester

Webster Primary School

Denmark Road, Greenheys, Manchester, M15 6JU

School website 01612263928
Ofsted No grade March 2025
Met the expected standard 51% in the lower half nationally
Chance of a place 100% of first choices offered

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 4 March 2025.

This inspection did not give an overall grade. Read the report for Ofsted's findings; it cannot be compared as a single score with a historic grade.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Report card — no overall grade
Last overall grade in this dataset
Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
Days since inspection
577 days
Framework era
Current framework (no overall grade)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths

51% England 60.7%

Reached the higher standard

0% England 8.1%

Average reading score

103 England 105.3

Average maths score

105 England 104.1

On the headline measure this school is in the lower half of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

About as many first choices as places. Of the 36 families who named this school as their first choice, 100% were offered a place.

Places offered
37

for entry into Reception

Named it first choice
36
First choices per place
0.97

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
100%

England 95.1%

First preferences per place are up 19% on three years ago.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
363
Places
420
How full
86% full — 363 of 420 places taken
Girls / boys
173 / 190
Overall absence
4%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
9%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
60%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
72%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
6%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
5

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
29

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
10
Busiest road nearby
B5219

10,391 vehicles a day (2019)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
23

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Manchester Oxford Road Rail Station

1.6 km away — railway station

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£210,000

postcode sector M15 6 · 35 sales

Typical range
£183,000 to £268,000

middle half of sales

Terraced
£210,000
Flat
£209,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than most of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
36%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
20%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
7%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
20%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
54%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
9%

England 62.7%

Social housing
79%

England 17%

Privately rented
11%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
16%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
8%

England 22.5%

No car
58%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Manchester 019F and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 3–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
No
Nursery
Yes
Boarding
Day school
Trust
Webster Primary School
Headteacher
Headteacher: Sabeen Rauf
Opened as this establishment
1 April 2013
Register status
Open
Local authority
Manchester
Ward
Hulme
Constituency
Manchester Rusholme
URN
139445

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Reception

1.10 2014/15: 0.64 first choices per place2015/16: 0.74 first choices per place2016/17: 0.81 first choices per place2017/18: 0.84 first choices per place2018/19: 0.94 first choices per place2019/20: 0.82 first choices per place2020/21: 0.96 first choices per place2021/22: 0.92 first choices per place2022/23: 0.97 first choices per place2023/24: 0.81 first choices per place2024/25: 0.92 first choices per place2025/26: 1.00 first choices per place2026/27: 0.97 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 76 49 0.64 100%
2015/16 74 55 0.74 100%
2016/17 62 50 0.81 100%
2017/18 62 52 0.84 100%
2018/19 34 32 0.94 100%
2019/20 39 32 0.82 100%
2020/21 50 48 0.96 100%
2021/22 36 33 0.92 100%
2022/23 38 37 0.97 100%
2023/24 48 39 0.81 100%
2024/25 36 33 0.92 100%
2025/26 31 31 1.00 100%
2026/27 37 36 0.97 100%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
Holy Name Roman Catholic Primary School ManchesterVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2024 57% 0.1 mi
Claremont Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 53% 0.5 mi
The Divine Mercy Roman Catholic Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Requires improvement 2024 45% 0.6 mi
Heald Place Primary SchoolCommunity school No overall grade 44% 0.6 mi
Rolls Crescent Primary SchoolAcademy converter Report card 2026 56% 0.7 mi
St Chrysostom's CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Report card 2025 53% 0.7 mi
St Philip's Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 40% 0.7 mi
St Mary's CofE Junior and Infant SchoolVoluntary controlled school Outstanding 2024 76% 0.8 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 51%
Median of its 12 closest peers 48%
Manchester average 53.6%
England average 60.7%

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
Phillimore Community Primary SchoolAcademy converter Sheffield Good 2023 33%
Old Trafford Community AcademyAcademy converter Manchester No overall grade 40%
E-Act Bannerman Road Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led Bristol Good 2022 43%
Pye Bank CofE Primary SchoolAcademy converter Sheffield Good 2022 42%
Firs Primary SchoolAcademy converter Birmingham Report card 2026 28%
Co-op Academy BrownhillAcademy sponsor led Leeds Good 2023 48%
Anderton Park Primary SchoolCommunity school Birmingham Good 2023 47%
Old Moat Primary SchoolAcademy converter Manchester Outstanding 2024 65%
Welbourne Primary SchoolCommunity school London Report card 2026 64%
St James' Church of England Aided Junior SchoolAcademy converter Derby Good 2024 51%
Holy Cross Ceva Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Oldham No overall grade 52%
Summerbank Primary AcademyAcademy converter Stoke-on-Trent Good 2023 71%

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 139445; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 4 March 2025
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

These sources are published for reuse under the Open Government Licence v3.0, including the Crown database-right notice that accompanies Price Paid Data. Definitions and source notes. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.

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