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Schools in the Bury local authority

Bury has 91 schools listed on OfferDay across 8 towns.

1 nursery school · 64 primary schools · 14 secondary schools · 2 sixth forms and colleges · 8 special and alternative provision schools · 2 independent schools

About schools in Bury

Bury lists 91 schools, most of them primary schools. Its 14 secondary schools are where families compare options once a child finishes primary. Older students can carry on at two sixth forms and colleges.

Ofsted inspects every school listed here. Its newer reports judge a school across several areas rather than giving one overall grade, while older reports still carry the previous single grade, so read the framework and the date on each page before you set two schools side by side. Where results have been published you will also find key stage 2 scores for the primary schools and Attainment 8 for the secondary schools. An inspection or a results table captures a school at one past moment, so use this page to draw up a shortlist and then visit.

Key stage 2, 2024/25
64%
of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, across the 56 schools with published results
Key stage 4, 2024/25
42.9
average Attainment 8 score, across the 14 schools with published results

Top schools in Bury

Ranked by the latest published results; primary and secondary schools are measured differently and never compared with each other.

Primary

  1. 1 Chantlers Primary School 97%
  2. 2 Hazlehurst Primary Academy 90%
  3. 3 Gorsefield Primary School 88%
  4. 4 Greenhill Primary School 86%
  5. 5 Unsworth Primary School 82%
  6. 6 Christ Church CofE Primary School 79%
  7. 7 Sunny Bank Primary School 75%
  8. 8 Holly Mount Roman Catholic Primary School, Bury 74%

Secondary

  1. 1 St Monica's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy 50.4
  2. 2 Philips High School 50.3
  3. 3 Bury Church of England High School 49.1
  4. 4 Woodhey High School 47.3
  5. 5 St Gabriel's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy 46.0
  6. 6 Unsworth Academy 45.4
  7. 7 The Elton High School 44.3
  8. 8 Manchester Mesivta School 39.3

Schools by town

The count beside each town is the number of its schools under Bury.

Schools not listed under a town

These schools have no town recorded in the national register.

Common questions about schools in Bury

How many schools does Bury have?
OfferDay lists 91 schools in Bury, including 64 primary schools and 14 secondary schools.
Who inspects schools in Bury?
Every school in Bury is inspected by Ofsted. Newer reports grade several areas of a school separately on a report card, while older reports carry a single overall grade, so check the framework and the date on each page before you compare two schools.
How are schools in Bury ranked?
OfferDay ranks an area's schools only where enough of them have published results to compare fairly, and Bury does not have enough to rank. Compare its schools on their Ofsted reports and, where results are published, the figures shown against each school on this page.
How many towns are in the Bury local authority?
OfferDay groups the Bury schools across eight towns, listed in the schools-by-town section on this page. Any school with no town recorded in the national register is listed separately, grouped by phase, so every school in the local authority is reachable.

School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. Information on this page was last updated on 24 July 2026.