St Christopher's Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire OL6 9DP
10 reasons to choose St Christopher's Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne
Top line
St Christopher’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne has a Schoolsmith Score® of 72. It is one of the best state primary schools in Ashton-under-Lyne and one of the 3 best independent or state primaries within 1.5 miles.
School fundamentals
St Christopher’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne is a state primary school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 3 and 11 years. It is a Roman Catholic academy converter faith school. The school is one of the 22 members of Emmaus Catholic Academy Trust. The school was also rated as Good by Ofsted in its last (2023) inspection. It is one of the 5 most oversubscribed state primary schools for first preference Reception place applications in the Tameside LEA.
Average class size
St Christopher’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne has one class per year, and an average class size of 31 pupils.
Exam results
Average Year 6 SATS results from 2016-19 and 2022 show that St Christopher’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne ranks in the top 4% of schools in the country by attainment. By the same measure, progress score rank the school in the top 12% of schools.
The St Christopher's Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne curriculum
School curriculum emphasises Catholic social morality and also includes PSHE, Spanish. Core subjects are taught separately, but foundation subjects, such as geography and history, are taught as half-termly ‘Challenge Curriculum’ topics. The school offers each child a handful of extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers, Forest School sessions for all year groups and a residential trip in Year 6.
Specialist teaching
Most lessons are taught by the class teacher with specialist teaching for computing, languages and music.
Sport at St Christopher's Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at St Christopher's Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne
Art and music are taught as discrete subjects to all pupils. DT, drama, dance integrated into other subjects. Choir and brass band. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Out of school hours care from 7.30am to 5.30pm provided by external contractors.
Find another school near St Christopher's Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashton-under-Lyne
Trinity Christian School, Primary (2.1 miles); Hulme Grammar Prep School (3.8 miles); The Chadderton Preparatory Grammar School (5.3 miles).
Holden Clough Community Primary School (0.9 miles); Canon Burrows Church of England Primary School (1.5 miles); Milton St John’s Church of England Primary School (1.8 miles).
Trinity Christian School, Stalybridge (2.1 miles); Hulme Grammar School (3.8 miles); The Manchester Grammar School (7.7 miles).
St Damian’s RC Science College (0.5 miles); Mossley Hollins High School (3.6 miles); The Blue Coat CofE School (3.8 miles).