St Wilfrid's CofE Junior and Infant School
General Information
- Address: Mabel Street, Newton Heath, Manchester, M40 1GB – View on map
- Phone: 01616811385
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Laura Flynn
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 25 families put it first for 25 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 25 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 11 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 147
- % eligible for free school meals: 67.1%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (less mixed than the Manchester average)
- English as an additional language: 13% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 7.4% a year (Manchester 15.1%, typical in England 13.9%) Low turnover
- Where they went: about 43% moved to another school, 57% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. "Low turnover" means it's among the quarter of similar schools in England where teachers are most likely to stay.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Manchester: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 8 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Manchester, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 20.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 26.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 41 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 13 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 72% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 13 percentage points above the Manchester average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 66% against an expected 56%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 66%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 91% · Writing 72% · Maths 94% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 84%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 108
- Based on: 32 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 26th of 125 junior and primary schools in the area
- =26Seymour Road Academy72%
- =26St Augustine's CofE Primary School72%
- =26St Wilfrid's CofE Junior and Infant School72%
- =26William Hulme's Grammar School72%
- =31CofE School of the Resurrection71%
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94th of 110 primary schools in Manchester for Ofsted rating
- #92St Richard's RC Primary SchoolGood
- #93St Wilfrid's CofE Aided Primary School NorthendenGood
- #94St Wilfrid's CofE Junior and Infant SchoolGood
- #95St Wilfrid's RC Primary SchoolGood
- #96St Willibrord's RC Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,270 (2024-25)
64th of 130 primary schools in Manchester for spending per pupil
- #62Moston Fields Primary School£7,288
- #63All Saints C of E Primary School£7,278
- #64St Wilfrid's CofE Junior and Infant School£7,270
- #65Co-op Academy Medlock£7,243
- #66Moston Lane Community Primary School£7,233
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