Vale View Primary School
General Information
- Address: Mill Lane, North Reddish, Stockport, SK5 6TP – View on map
- Phone: 01612210118
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Claire Smith
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 38 families put it first for 41 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 41 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 170
- % eligible for free school meals: 43.1%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (more mixed than the Stockport average)
- English as an additional language: 27% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 16.5% a year (Stockport 11.4%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 42% moved to another school, 58% 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 Stockport: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 4 (0.2 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 Stockport, 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: 8.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 24.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for AutismModerate learning difficulties 24 places · 24 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 10.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 32 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 16 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 14 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 20 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 13 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 47% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 19 percentage points below the Stockport average (66%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 54% against an expected 56%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 54%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 63% · Writing 65% · Maths 62% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 52%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 100
- Based on: 60 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 57th of 70 junior and primary schools in the area
- #56Dial Park Primary School48%
- =57Bredbury St. Marks CofE Primary School47%
- =57Vale View Primary School47%
- =59Lark Hill Primary School45%
- =59St Ambrose Catholic Primary School45%
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51st of 60 primary schools in Stockport for Ofsted rating
- #49Tithe Barn Primary SchoolGood
- #50Torkington Primary SchoolGood
- #51Vale View Primary SchoolGood
- #52Warren Wood Primary SchoolGood
- #53Westmorland Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,396 (2024-25)
12th of 71 primary schools in Stockport for spending per pupil
- #10Bredbury Green Primary School£8,474
- #11Whitehill Primary School£8,426
- #12Vale View Primary School£8,396
- #13All Saints Church of England Primary School Stockport£8,349
- #14St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School£8,226
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