1Smithy Bridge Foundation Primary School
Rochdale · ages 3 to 11 · URN105847
402 pupils / 444 at Ninelands Primary School2025/26 · Academic year
Add to comparison- Overall effectiveness: Good
- Quality of education: Good
- Behaviour and attitudes: Good
- Personal development: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
- Safeguarding is effective: Yes
- Early years: Good
- Free school meals: 2.4 percentage points higher
- First language other than English: 0.1 percentage points higher
- SEND: 0.24 percentage points higher
- 42 fewer pupils
Sources, Ofsted & match details
- Graded inspection (previous framework) · inspected 18 October 2023 · published 15 November 2023 · monthly file dated 30 September 2026
Overall effectiveness: Good; Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good; Safeguarding is effective: Yes; Early years: Good
Matching score and calculation
Score 0.00099. A lower score means more similar pupil context. It is not a school rating or a percentage.
- FSM eligible (current eligibility): difference 2.4 percentage points; weight 45%; contribution 0.01080.
- First language other than English: difference 0.1 percentage points; weight 25%; contribution 0.00025.
- SEN support and EHC plans (derived percentage): difference 0.24 percentage points; weight 20%; contribution 0.00048.
- Total pupils: difference 42 pupils; weight 10%; contribution 0.00946.
- region: no matching bonus; contribution 0.00000.
- faith: same published context; contribution -0.01000.
- governance: same published context; contribution -0.01000.