Primary
Lowercroft Primary School
Ashington Drive, Bury, BL8 2TS
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 204 of 230 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
- Local authority
- Bury
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.8
- All staff (FTE)
- 20.4
- Pupils per adult
- 11.6
- Pupils
- 237
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected January 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
SafeguardingMet
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
66%
1 points above the Bury average (65% across 57 schools)
109.0
3.0 above the Bury average (106.0 across 57 schools)
24th of 57 by our score, among the primary schools in Bury we can score - 68 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 105 |
| Average reading score | 109 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 66% |
| Working at a higher standard | 6% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 60% |
| 23/24 | 60% |
| 24/25 | 66% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 106.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 109.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 105.0 |
Ashington Drive, Bury, BL8 2TS
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Bury admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Janine McGadie
- Address
- Ashington Drive, Bury, BL8 2TS
- Telephone
- 01617612798
Other primary schools nearby
- Greenhill Primary School7.8/10
- Chantlers Primary School9.1/10
- St Stephen's Church of England Primary School4.7/10
- Christ Church Ainsworth Church of England Primary SchoolNot enough data
- Christ Church CofE Primary School7.0/10
- Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyNot enough data