Buckton Vale Primary School
Stalybridge, SK15 3NU · Tameside local authority
Stalybridge’s School Grade C better than 30% of towns in England
What stands out about Buckton Vale Primary School
- Its own letter, B: Key Stage 2 results better than 60% of England’s primary schools
- Room to spare: 202 pupils for 315 places
- Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (24 of 24)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SK15 3) sold for a median £230,750; Stalybridge’s is £210,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 66%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 60% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Tameside avg 60%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 106 (100 = the expected standard)
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.
How hard is it to get a place at Buckton Vale Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2023 (4). 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. Victorious Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Tameside council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Stalybridge and Tameside, side by side
2023–2025All 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. Stalybridge’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Christopher's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | A+ | 19% | 89% |
| St Raphael's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 21% | 86% |
| St John's CofE Primary School, Dukinfield | A+ | 22% | 83% |
| Millbrook Primary School | A | 34% | 79% |
| Godley Community Primary Academy | A− | 17% | 75% |
| Milton St John's CofE Primary School | A− | 19% | 74% |
| Holden Clough Primary School | A− | 29% | 74% |
| St. Peter's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | A− | 18% | 74% |
| Fairfield Road Primary School | A− | 30% | 73% |
| Livingstone Primary School | A− | 21% | 73% |
| Linden Road Academy | A− | 41% | 72% |
| St Anne's Primary School | A− | 23% | 72% |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | A− | 27% | 71% |
| Inspire Academy | B+ | 37% | 70% |
| Corrie Primary School | B+ | 40% | 70% |
| Denton West End Primary School | B | 11% | 67% |
| Aldwyn Primary School | B | 26% | 67% |
| Flowery Field Primary School | B | 36% | 66% |
| Greenfield Primary Academy | B | 59% | 66% |
| Pinfold Primary School | B | 57% | 66% |
| Buckton Vale Primary School | B | 26% | 66% |
| Canon Burrows CofE Primary School | B | 26% | 65% |
| Discovery Academy | B | 40% | 65% |
| Dowson Primary Academy | B− | 21% | 64% |
| St Joseph's RC Primary School | B− | 21% | 63% |
| Canon Johnson CofE Primary School | B− | 53% | 63% |
| St James' Church of England Primary School | B− | 57% | 63% |
| St Anne's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | B− | 21% | 63% |
| Stalyhill Junior School | B− | 12% | 62% |
| Bradley Green Primary Academy | B− | 46% | 62% |
| Endeavour Primary Academy | B− | 50% | 62% |
| Hollingworth Primary School | B− | 35% | 62% |
| Russell Scott Primary School | C+ | 38% | 60% |
| St Peter's CofE Primary School | C+ | 52% | 60% |
| Manchester Road Primary Academy | C+ | 43% | 60% |
| Greenside Primary School | C+ | 37% | 60% |
| Dane Bank Primary School | C+ | 23% | 60% |
| Broadbent Fold Primary School and Nursery | C+ | 10% | 59% |
| Holy Trinity CofE Primary School | C+ | 68% | 59% |
| Oasis Academy Broadoak | C+ | 65% | 59% |
| Lyndhurst Primary School | C+ | 62% | 59% |
| St Paul's CofE Primary School, Stalybridge | C+ | 34% | 58% |
| St George's CofE Primary School | C+ | 50% | 58% |
| Arundale Primary School | C | 62% | 57% |
| Audenshaw Primary School | C | 13% | 56% |
| Ashton West End Primary Academy | C | 43% | 55% |
| Micklehurst All Saints CofE Primary School | C | 25% | 54% |
| Dixons Silver Springs Primary | C | 52% | 54% |
| Parochial CofE Primary and Nursery School, Ashton-under-Lyne | C | 39% | 54% |
| St. Paul's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | C | 22% | 54% |
| The Heys Primary School | C− | 48% | 53% |
| Poplar Street Primary School | C− | 39% | 52% |
| St Stephen's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | C− | 31% | 52% |
| Yew Tree Primary School | C− | 51% | 51% |
| St George's CofE Primary School | C− | 39% | 51% |
| St James Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | C− | 46% | 51% |
| Moorside Primary School | C− | 33% | 50% |
| Greswell Primary School and Nursery | C− | 39% | 50% |
| St Mary's RC Primary School | C− | 16% | 49% |
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne | C− | 26% | 48% |
| Oakfield Primary and Moderate Learning Difficulties Resource Provision | D | 41% | 47% |
| Arlies Primary School | D | 38% | 45% |
| Waterloo Primary School | D | 45% | 45% |
| Rosehill Methodist Primary Academy | D | 49% | 45% |
| St John Fisher RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, Denton | D | 27% | 44% |
| Manor Green Primary Academy | D | 49% | 42% |
| St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | D | 24% | 42% |
| Ravensfield Primary School | D | 42% | 41% |
| Hurst Knoll St James' Church of England Primary School | D− | 58% | 38% |
| Wild Bank Primary School | D− | 61% | 33% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025213 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.
Girls and boys
Buckton Vale Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
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.
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting January 2026.
Living near Buckton Vale Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SK15 3, the school’s postcode sector
Stalybridge property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SK15 3 sell for a little over Stalybridge’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
9 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Stalybridge, SK15 3NU
Buckton Vale Primary School: common questions
Is Buckton Vale Primary School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 60% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B), with 66% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in January 2026.
How hard is it to get into Buckton Vale Primary School?
For September 2026, 24 families put Buckton Vale Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 24 places were offered in all.
What is Buckton Vale Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (January 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 Buckton Vale Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SK15 3, sold for a median £230,750 over the 36 months to August 2026 (282 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; Stalybridge’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.
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