Primary
Elton Community Primary School
Alston Street, Bury, BL8 1SB
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 307 of 315 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
- Local authority
- Bury
- Nursery
- Yes
- Trust
- THE KEEP LEARNING TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 14.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 27.7
- Pupils per adult
- 11.4
- Pupils
- 316
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 2024
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
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
62%
3 points below the Bury average (65% across 57 schools)
104.0
2.0 below the Bury average (106.0 across 57 schools)
18th 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 | 106 |
| Average reading score | 104 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 62% |
| Working at a higher standard | 16% |
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 | 69% |
| 23/24 | 74% |
| 24/25 | 62% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 106.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 104.0 |
| 23/24 | 108.0 |
| 24/25 | 106.0 |
Alston Street, Bury, BL8 1SB
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
- Carolyn Ashworth
- Address
- Alston Street, Bury, BL8 1SB
- Telephone
- 01617052674
Other primary schools nearby
- Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyNot enough data
- Woodbank Primary School6.1/10
- Chantlers Primary School9.1/10
- Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyNot enough data
- St John with St Mark CofE Primary School5.1/10
- Christ Church CofE Primary School7.0/10