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State primary · 3 to 11 · Mixed · 325 pupils

Parklee Primary School

Wardour Street, Atherton, Wigan, M46 0AR
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COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · RECEPTION 2027

Offers reached between 0.64 and 0.8 miles in the last 3 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Wigan Council offer-day figures, 2024 to 2026.

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Ofsted: Good · March 2025(71/99)Oversubscribed · 1.4 first choices per place (2026)
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Summary

The key facts, in one place
Primary (key stage 2) The league rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase on the newest year's DfE results, the same rank as on the Schools map. In England: 10,407th of 14,817 on the same figure. Band: Lower half.
(71/99)Rank among 99 Wigan primaries with results, 2025 results (reading, writing and maths)
See the Wigan league table →
Inspection
Good, March 2025
Getting in
Oversubscribed; last offer 0.71 mi (2026)
Results
56% expected standard; 9% higher standard
Size
325 pupils; 30 places a year; classes of 27
Run by
Education Partnership Trust
Type
Academy converter
Ages
3 to 11 · Mixed
Ofsted, March 2025The judgements from the school's latest inspection. Reports from November 2025 use Ofsted's new report card, with different headings; we show whichever the latest report uses.Read the report ↗
Quality of educationGood
Behaviour and attitudesGood
Leadership and managementGood
Strengths, and things to check
  • Expected standard: 56%, against 66% in Wigan.
  • Higher standard: 9%, against 10% in Wigan.
  • Oversubscribed: 1.4 first choices for each place (Reception 2026).
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At a glance

Against Wigan and England
This schoolWiganEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Academic
Expected standardThe share of Year 6 pupils who reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths together, from the key stage 2 tests and teacher assessment.
56%
Worse than Wigan
Higher standardThe share who reached the higher standard in all three. A small year group can swing this a lot from one year to the next.
9%
Worse than Wigan
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
27.0
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
22%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
22.6
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Reception place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
1.4
More sought after than Wigan
Wigan and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state primary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.Where these figures come from →

Overview

Getting in

  • 43 families put it first for 30 places; 27 of them got in DfE, school applications and offers · Reception 2026
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Quality

  • Good Ofsted · inspected 11 March 2025
  • Reading, writing and maths: expected standard: 56% (England 62%) (county 66%) DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025
  • Reading, writing and maths: higher standard: 9% (England 8%) (county 10%) DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025

Daily life

  • Classes average 27.0 pupils; 19% of classes have more than 30 DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
  • 22.6 pupils for each teacher DfE, school workforce · November 2025
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 120 m DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
  • 20 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 1 serious) DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 9.4 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.6 (1 km square, background level) DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024
  • Absence and suspension figures are not published for this school (DfE covers state schools only).

Who runs it

  • Education Partnership Trust, with 9 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined April 2025
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 April 2025 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced Parklee Community School (URN 106426) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 April 2025
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Getting in

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Last distance offeredAdd your home to this chart
1 mi0.50
202420252026

Offer day, year by year

EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Reception20263010630—0.71
Reception2025309730—0.64
Reception2024——45—0.8

Source: Council offer-day figures: Wigan Council, 2024 to 2026. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.

Applications and offers, DfE

EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Reception2026304310527

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2026 to 2026. Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.

Feeder school rules

Priority at secondary schools

Quoted word for word from the arrangements the school or council published. Check the quote against the school's own current admission policy before you rely on it: rules change each year.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Results

MeasureThis schoolEnglandCouncilYear
Reading, writing and maths: expected standard56%62%66%2024/2025
Reading, writing and maths: higher standard9%8%10%2024/2025

Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/2025.

League table place

TableLeague rank
Primary (key stage 2)(71/99)

Source: DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase.

Inspections

DateKindOutcome
11 March 2025Graded inspectionQuality of education: Good
18 September 2019Ungraded visitSchool remains Good

Source: Ofsted, 2025.

Wigan league tableEvery school of this phase in the council on these results.See the table →

Daily life

Class sizes and staff

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size27.02025/26
Classes over 30 pupils19%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher22.6November 2025

Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

Stops nearby

KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus120

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.

Road collisions within 500 m

YearCollisions
20252
20242
20234
20227
20215

Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 1 serious and 0 fatal in all; 7 involved a pedestrian, 4 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.

Air quality

PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO29.42024
PM1010.62024
PM256.62024

Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.

Pupils

Who goes there

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals22%2025/26
First language other than English6.2%2025/26
SEN support16%2025/26
Education, health and care plan3.4%2025/26
Girls49%2025/26

Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

Who runs it

Who runs it

  • Education Partnership Trust, with 9 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined April 2025
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 April 2025 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced Parklee Community School (URN 106426) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 April 2025
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Area

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Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Wigan Council
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE school performance tables
  • DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in Wigan and the Wigan league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.