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Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Voluntary aidedChurch of England

Eccles, M30 7BJ · Salford local authority

Eccles’s School Grade B− better than 49% of towns in England

Its letter
4%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
37/37
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
386 pupils
92% of its 420 places
Free school meals
40%
40 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School

  • Its own letter, D−: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 4%)
  • 38% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24 points below England’s schools
  • 40% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (37 of 37)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (M30 7) sold for a median £207,500; Eccles’s is £232,250

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 38%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 4% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Salford avg 59%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary 38%

Each subject, 2025

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

Reading63%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)54%
England’s schools 73%
Maths60%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling63%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 21 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
24%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
58%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three2%
England’s schools 8% · Salford 7% · 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 Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School?

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

37
families put it first for September 2026
39
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

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. The school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Salford council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Eccles, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.83 per place
53% got their first choice
1.20 per place
83% got their first choice
1.07 per place
81% got their first choice
1.03 per place
94% got their first choice
Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary
0.95 per place
100% got their first choice
0.93 per place
86% got their first choice
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
96% got their first choice
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice

Eccles and Salford, side by side

2023–2025

All 70 graded primaries in Salford. 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. Eccles’s schools are coloured by their letter.

30%41%52%63%74%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE
ABCDElsewhere in SalfordGodfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Broadoak Primary SchoolA+3%86%
Wardley CofE Primary SchoolA+21%85%
St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary SchoolA+58%85%
St Andrew's CofE Primary SchoolA+6%83%
St Mary's RC Primary SchoolA+11%83%
St Mark's CofE Primary SchoolA7%82%
James Brindley Community Primary SchoolA10%82%
Christ The King RC Primary SchoolA15%81%
St Philip's RC Primary SchoolA14%80%
Bridgewater Primary SchoolA49%79%
St Paul's CofE Primary SchoolA−38%74%
St Teresa's RC Primary School a Voluntary AcademyA−17%74%
St Paul's CofE Primary SchoolA−15%72%
St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolA−32%72%
Ellenbrook Community Primary SchoolA−6%71%
The Deans Primary SchoolB+22%70%
St Andrew's Methodist Primary SchoolB+30%69%
St Mary's RC Primary SchoolB+19%69%
Primrose Hill Primary School and Children's CentreB45%66%
Dukesgate AcademyB63%66%
Clifton Primary SchoolB42%65%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolB−30%64%
St Mark's RC Primary SchoolB−34%64%
St Paul's CofE Primary SchoolB−39%63%
Barton Moss Community Primary SchoolB−49%62%
Holy Cross and All Saints RC Primary SchoolB−20%61%
Light Oaks Junior SchoolC+23%60%
Irlam Primary SchoolC+25%60%
Lewis Street Primary SchoolC+53%59%
St Gilbert's Roman Catholic Primary School, EcclesC+16%59%
St Charles' RC Primary SchoolC+21%59%
St Edmund's RC Primary SchoolC+42%59%
St Paul's CofE Primary SchoolC+61%59%
Monton Green Primary SchoolC15%57%
St Paul's Peel CofE Primary SchoolC59%57%
St Sebastian's RC Primary SchoolC56%57%
St Augustine's CofE Primary SchoolC53%57%
Grosvenor Road Primary SchoolC31%57%
Lower Kersal Community Primary SchoolC51%56%
St John's CofE Primary SchoolC21%56%
Beech Street Community Primary SchoolC52%55%
Mossfield Primary SchoolC51%55%
St Luke's RC Primary SchoolC12%55%
Holy Family VA RC Primary SchoolC18%55%
Peel Hall Primary SchoolC62%54%
St Andrew's CofE Primary SchoolC41%54%
Christ Church CofE Primary SchoolC48%54%
Broughton Jewish Cassel Fox Primary SchoolC6%54%
Moorside Primary SchoolC−29%53%
River View Community Primary SchoolC−42%53%
Willow Tree Primary SchoolC−47%53%
Boothstown Methodist Primary SchoolC−19%50%
Mesne Lea Primary SchoolC−26%50%
Summerville Primary SchoolC−45%49%
The Friars Primary SchoolC−44%49%
Irlam Endowed Primary SchoolC−27%49%
Marlborough Road AcademyC−70%49%
St Joseph the Worker RC Primary SchoolC−35%48%
St Boniface RC Primary SchoolC−53%48%
Fiddlers Lane Community Primary SchoolC−54%48%
Lark Hill Community Primary SchoolD54%47%
Wharton Primary SchoolD56%47%
Westwood Park Community Primary SchoolD61%46%
North Walkden Primary SchoolD45%45%
The Cathedral School of St Peter and St John RC PrimaryD32%45%
St Luke's CofE Primary SchoolD41%43%
St George's CofE Primary SchoolD58%39%
Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary SchoolD−40%38%
St Joseph's RC Primary SchoolD−43%36%
St Philip's CofE Primary SchoolD−27%33%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

402 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
19.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
11.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
37.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 51%Boys 49%
Its letter

Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths D−Better than 4% 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.

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, January 2024. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), November 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School

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

Home prices in M30 7, the school’s postcode sector

Eccles property prices →
£207,500
median sale, 286 sales in 36 months · Eccles £232,250

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025M30 7Eccles
M30 7Eccles

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£320K
Semi-detached
£243K
Terraced
£195K
Flat
£127K
M30 7Eccles

Homes in M30 7 sell for a little under Eccles’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

18 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+CDCCCB−A+C+A−A+BB−BB−B−A+C+D−Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Eccles, M30 7BJ

Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School: common questions

Is Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 4% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D−), with 38% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in April 2026.

How hard is it to get into Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School?

For September 2026, 37 families put Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 39 places were offered in all.

What is Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Godfrey Ermen Memorial CofE Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, M30 7, sold for a median £207,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (286 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; Eccles’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.