Ashgate Specialist Support Primary School

State-Funded School

ashgate-specialist-support-primary-school-manchester-north-west

North WestRegion

ManchesterLocal Authority

Wythenshawe and Sale EastConstituency

M22 5DRPostcode

9.4

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Ashgate Specialist Support Primary School is a state-funded special for pupils aged 3–11, located in Manchester, North West.

The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 157 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Yes

Rating last maintained

2024

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Early yearsprovision

Outstanding

Ethnicity

White

64%

Asian

Black

10%

Mixed

10%

Any other group

Unclassified

Pupils

157

Total Pupils

74%Boys

26%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

64%

England average

27%

First language not English

18%

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Special
Age range: 3 – 11
Deprivation band: Most deprived
Total pupils: 157
IDACI quintile: 5 (Least deprived)

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 6 November 2024. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
6 May 2019	Outstanding	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Outstanding

A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.