The School Record

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

St Matthew's Church of England Primary School

URN 140417 · Primary · Academy sponsor led · Stockport

Bowdon Street, Stockport, SK3 9EA

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

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, 17 families named St Matthew's Church of England Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 26 offers.

That is 0.65 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 2% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 2% 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 0.79 in 2021–2022 and 0.77 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 17 70 26 0.65
2024 24 62 27 0.89
2023 25 59 26 0.96
2022 17 43 24 0.71
2021 25 48 29 0.86
2020 23 66 30 0.77
2019 31 57 31 1.00
2018 21 57 26 0.81
2017 25 52 29 0.86
2016 22 48 29 0.76
2015 18 45 22 0.82
2014 14 43 16 0.88

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 202320212023

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 27 June 2023

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 11 November 2021

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 19.0% 7.0% 100.0 100.0
2023/24 48.0% 7.0% 101.0 103.0
2022/23 56.0% 7.0% 104.0 103.0

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 9.7 7.7 2.0 0.0 20.6%
2023/24 9.4 8.7 0.0 0.7 7.4%
2022/23 10.7 9.7 1.0 0.0 9.3%
2021/22 8.8 7.8 0.0 1.0 11.4%
2020/21 9.2 9.2 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 8.1 7.1 0.0 1.0 12.3%

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

Stockport publishes an admission zone for this school (St Matthew's Church of England Primary).

Covers: 81 live postcodes across 0.412 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Our Lady's Catholic Primary School and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

31 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for St Matthew's Church of England Primary School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from St Matthew's Church of England Primary 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.