The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Springhead Infant and Nursery School

URN 105668 · Primary · Community school · Oldham

Cooper Street, Oldham, OL4 4QT

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 33 families named Springhead Infant and Nursery School as their first preference, and the school made 35 offers.

That is 0.94 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 35% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 35% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.92 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 33 60 35 0.94
2024 39 73 40 0.97
2023 31 63 31 1.00
2022 35 81 39 0.90
2021 40 66 42 0.95
2020 50 88 56 0.89
2019 52 94 61 0.85
2018 58 101 72 0.81
2017 48 95 63 0.76
2016 46 83 52 0.88
2015 80 136 90 0.89
2014 91 133 90 1.01

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2021 to 202620212026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 27 January 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Achievement: Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Early years: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 13 October 2021

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 4.0 3.0 1.0 0.0 25.0%
2023/24 3.6 3.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 5.0 3.6 0.0 1.4 28.0%
2021/22 8.6 5.0 2.0 1.6 41.9%
2020/21 9.6 6.6 0.0 3.0 31.2%
2019/20 12.1 8.6 0.0 3.5 28.9%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Springhead Infant and Nursery School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.