Cavendish Primary School

General Information

Address: Cavendish Road, West Didsbury, Manchester, M20 1JG
Phone: 01614451815
Website: Visit school website
Headteacher: Mrs J Taylor
Age range: 3-11 years
Sixth form: No
Intake: Mixed
Religious character: Does not apply
Number of pupils: 576
School capacity: 720
Pupils eligible for free school meals: 165
% eligible for free school meals: 29.5%
Nursery provision: Yes

Behaviour

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SEN

No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision

SEN Unit and Resourced Provision

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SEN provision information for this school has not been added yet.

Pupils on SEN Support: 14.8%
Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.7%
Data year: 2025/26

Most common needs - SEN Support

Speech, language and communications needs: 35 pupils
Social, emotional and mental health: 16 pupils
SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 11 pupils
Specific learning difficulty: 10 pupils
Physical disability: 5 pupils

Most common needs - EHC Plan

Autistic spectrum disorder: 14 pupils
Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
Physical disability: 1 pupil

These figures show the makeup of the school.

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Educational Attainment

No overall grade given 2025 report

About this Ofsted rating

Ofsted stopped giving single overall grades for a period between September 2024 and November 2025 - this school's most recent inspection falls in that window, so there's no single rating to show, even though it was inspected. The full report (linked below) still has the detail.

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Financials

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