Tyldesley Primary School
General Information
- Address: Ennerdale Road, Astley Tyldesley, Manchester, M29 7PY – View on map
- Phone: 01942882870
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Janet Shorrock
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 46 families put it first for 51 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 2 of the 51 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 9 · 2025 11 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 27
- % eligible for free school meals: 6.2%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the Wigan average)
- English as an additional language: 8% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.7% a year (Wigan 12.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 28% moved to another school, 72% 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.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Wigan: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 4 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 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 Wigan, 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: 4.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 4.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 81% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 12% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points above the Wigan average (66%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 77% against an expected 70%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 77%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 91% · Writing 88% · Maths 93% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 97%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 108
- Based on: 58 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 14th of 97 junior and primary schools in the area
- =14Highfield St Matthew's Church of England Primary School81%
- =14Our Lady's RC Primary School Wigan81%
- =14Tyldesley Primary School81%
- =17Hindley Green Community Primary School80%
- =17St James' Catholic Primary School Orrell80%
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72nd of 75 primary schools in Wigan for Ofsted rating
- #70St William's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #71Standish Lower Ground St Anne's CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #72Tyldesley Primary SchoolGood
- #73Tyldesley St George's Central CofE Primary School and NurseryGood
- #74Westleigh St Paul's CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,371 (2024-25)
94th of 98 primary schools in Wigan for spending per pupil
- #92Highfield St Matthew's Church of England Primary School£5,639
- #93Orrell Lamberhead Green Academy£5,500
- #94Tyldesley Primary School£5,371
- #95St Peter's Church of England Primary School, Hindley£5,258
- #96Platt Bridge Community School£4,150
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