Tyntesfield Primary School
General Information
- Address: Alma Road, Sale, M33 4HE – View on map
- Phone: 01619734877
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Kathryn Manion
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 63 families put it first for 60 places – 11 for every 10 places. 79% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 11
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 16
- % eligible for free school meals: 3.7%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Trafford average)
- English as an additional language: 43% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.5% a year (Trafford 10.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 49% moved to another school, 51% 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 Trafford: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 3 (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 Trafford, 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: 2.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 2.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 20 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 18 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 13 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 11 pupils
- Multi-sensory impairment: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 84% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 36% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 11 percentage points above the Trafford average (74%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 57% against an expected 68%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 57%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 95% · Writing 90% · Maths 95% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 93%
- Average test scores: reading 111, maths 112
- 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: 10th of 55 junior and primary schools in the area
- =7St Hugh of Lincoln RC Primary School87%
- #9St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy85%
- #10Tyntesfield Primary School84%
- =11Bowdon CofE Primary School80%
- =11Seymour Park Community Primary School80%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,055 (2024-25)
53rd of 55 primary schools in Trafford for spending per pupil
- #51St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy£5,692
- #52St Vincent's Catholic Primary School£5,641
- #53Tyntesfield Primary School£5,055
- #54Our Lady of the Rosary RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy£2,970
- #55English Martyrs' RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy£915
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