St Francis RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy

Primary school in Manchester. Inadequate (Mar 2023). Special measures.

Latest graded inspection

Inspected 7 March 2023, report published 21 June 2023, under the inspection system used from 2019 to 2025.

Special measures. Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern.

This grade was given to St Francis RC Primary School (its Ofsted page), the school this one replaced when it became an academy. St Francis RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy hasn’t been inspected under its own name yet, so Ofsted’s page for it shows no grade.

Inadequate overall. The lowest grade. The school had serious problems. 2% of schools whose latest graded inspection was under this system got Inadequate.

Grades for each area
Area	Grade
Quality of education	Inadequate
Behaviour and attitudes	Requires improvement
Personal development	Requires improvement
Leadership and management	Inadequate
Early years	Inadequate
Safeguarding effective	Yes

These grades come from the system Ofsted replaced in November 2025. They stay on record until the school’s next inspection, when it gets a report card instead. More about the old grades.

Next inspection: around March 2027

The last inspection was in March 2023. Schools are usually inspected about every four years. That’s within the next six months.

An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2028 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.

Nearby primary schools

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0.7 milesSt Brigid's RC Primary School
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0.7 milesArmitage CofE Primary School
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No overall grade. Quality of education good (Mar 2025)

Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.