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Denton West End Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Academy

Denton, M34 2JX · Tameside local authority

Denton’s School Grade B− better than 52% of towns in England

Its letter
63%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
49/49
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
436 pupils
98% of its 446 places
Free school meals
11%
11 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Denton West End Primary School

  • Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 63% of England’s primary schools
  • 67% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5 points above England’s schools
  • 11% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, October 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (49 of 49)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (M34 2) sold for a median £243,000; Denton’s is £221,975

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 67%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 63% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Tameside avg 60%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Denton West End Primary 67%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 103 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading77%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)87%
England’s schools 73%
Maths69%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling79%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 19 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
42%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
69%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three7%
England’s schools 8% · Tameside 5% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Denton West End Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

49
families put it first for September 2026
56
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (2), 2022 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Denton West End Primary School sets the admissions rules. Apply through Tameside council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Denton, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.27 per place
79% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.95 per place
100% got their first choice
0.92 per place
98% got their first choice
Denton West End Primary
0.88 per place
100% got their first choice

Denton and Tameside, side by side

2023–2025

All 70 graded primaries in Tameside. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Denton’s schools are coloured by their letter.

30%40%50%60%70%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Denton West End
ABCDElsewhere in TamesideDenton West End Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St Christopher's RC Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyA+19%89%
St Raphael's Catholic Primary SchoolA+21%86%
St John's CofE Primary School, DukinfieldA+22%83%
Millbrook Primary SchoolA34%79%
Godley Community Primary AcademyA−17%75%
Milton St John's CofE Primary SchoolA−19%74%
Holden Clough Primary SchoolA−29%74%
St. Peter's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyA−18%74%
Fairfield Road Primary SchoolA−30%73%
Livingstone Primary SchoolA−21%73%
Linden Road AcademyA−41%72%
St Anne's Primary SchoolA−23%72%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolA−27%71%
Inspire AcademyB+37%70%
Corrie Primary SchoolB+40%70%
Denton West End Primary SchoolB11%67%
Aldwyn Primary SchoolB26%67%
Flowery Field Primary SchoolB36%66%
Greenfield Primary AcademyB59%66%
Pinfold Primary SchoolB57%66%
Buckton Vale Primary SchoolB26%66%
Canon Burrows CofE Primary SchoolB26%65%
Discovery AcademyB40%65%
Dowson Primary AcademyB−21%64%
St Joseph's RC Primary SchoolB−21%63%
Canon Johnson CofE Primary SchoolB−53%63%
St James' Church of England Primary SchoolB−57%63%
St Anne's RC Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyB−21%63%
Stalyhill Junior SchoolB−12%62%
Bradley Green Primary AcademyB−46%62%
Endeavour Primary AcademyB−50%62%
Hollingworth Primary SchoolB−35%62%
Russell Scott Primary SchoolC+38%60%
St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolC+52%60%
Manchester Road Primary AcademyC+43%60%
Greenside Primary SchoolC+37%60%
Dane Bank Primary SchoolC+23%60%
Broadbent Fold Primary School and NurseryC+10%59%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary SchoolC+68%59%
Oasis Academy BroadoakC+65%59%
Lyndhurst Primary SchoolC+62%59%
St Paul's CofE Primary School, StalybridgeC+34%58%
St George's CofE Primary SchoolC+50%58%
Arundale Primary SchoolC62%57%
Audenshaw Primary SchoolC13%56%
Ashton West End Primary AcademyC43%55%
Micklehurst All Saints CofE Primary SchoolC25%54%
Dixons Silver Springs PrimaryC52%54%
Parochial CofE Primary and Nursery School, Ashton-under-LyneC39%54%
St. Paul's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyC22%54%
The Heys Primary SchoolC−48%53%
Poplar Street Primary SchoolC−39%52%
St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyC−31%52%
Yew Tree Primary SchoolC−51%51%
St George's CofE Primary SchoolC−39%51%
St James Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyC−46%51%
Moorside Primary SchoolC−33%50%
Greswell Primary School and NurseryC−39%50%
St Mary's RC Primary SchoolC−16%49%
Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC Primary School, Ashton-under-LyneC−26%48%
Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource ProvisionD41%47%
Arlies Primary SchoolD38%45%
Waterloo Primary SchoolD45%45%
Rosehill Methodist Primary AcademyD49%45%
St John Fisher RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, DentonD27%44%
Manor Green Primary AcademyD49%42%
St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyD24%42%
Ravensfield Primary SchoolD42%41%
Hurst Knoll St James' Church of England Primary SchoolD−58%38%
Wild Bank Primary SchoolD−61%33%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

447 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
3.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0.7%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
7.2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
14.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

Denton West End Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths BBetter than 63% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, October 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Denton West End Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in M34 2, the school’s postcode sector

Denton property prices →
£243,000
median sale, 399 sales in 36 months · Denton £221,975

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025M34 2Denton
M34 2Denton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£333K
Semi-detached
£251K
Terraced
£205K
M34 2Denton

Homes in M34 2 sell for a little over Denton’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

27 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCDCC+A−C−BCB−B+A−C−BAAC−B−DDA−C+CA+B+C−B+B−BDenton West End Primary Sch…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Denton, M34 2JX

Denton West End Primary School: common questions

Is Denton West End Primary School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 63% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 67% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, October 2023.

How hard is it to get into Denton West End Primary School?

For September 2026, 49 families put Denton West End Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 56 places were offered in all.

What is Denton West End Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2023).

How much do houses cost near Denton West End Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, M34 2, sold for a median £243,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (399 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Denton’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.