The School Record

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

Light Oaks Infant School

URN 105894 · Primary · Community school · Salford

Lancaster Road, Salford, M6 8LU

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, 68 families named Light Oaks Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 73 offers.

That is 0.93 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 31% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 31% 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 0.96 in 2021–2022 and 0.9 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 68 144 73 0.93
2024 67 135 78 0.86
2023 66 143 77 0.86
2022 84 151 88 0.95
2021 86 163 90 0.96
2020 94 157 90 1.04
2019 76 155 87 0.87
2018 79 138 86 0.92
2017 96 178 90 1.07
2016 104 181 89 1.17
2015 108 193 90 1.20
2014 107 188 91 1.18

“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 ungraded inspection, 13 July 2022

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 12.6 11.6 1.0 0.0 7.9%
2023/24 12.6 11.6 1.0 0.0 7.9%
2022/23 12.6 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 13.0 11.0 0.0 2.0 15.4%
2020/21 12.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 12.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%

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 Light Oaks Infant 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.