Graded inspection · Jul 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 8 July 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 5 October 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry51 applications · 0 places offered · 3 named it first
Small intakeFewer than 60 places, so not ranked.
- 2020 40.0; Lancashire median median 2.8
- 2018 40.0; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2014 1.4; Lancashire median median 2.6
- This school
- Lancashire median
Reception entry, September 2026: 1.9 per place (35 applications for 18 places).
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 0 | 51 | 3 | 0.00 | |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 0.00 | |
| Sep 2024 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sep 2023 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Sep 2022 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Sep 2021 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Sep 2020 | 1 | 40 | 40.0 | 8 | 8.00 |
| Sep 2019 | 0 | 32 | 0 | ||
| Sep 2018 | 1 | 40 | 40.0 | 4 | 4.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 0 | 27 | 5 | ||
| Sep 2016 | 0 | 23 | 5 | ||
| Sep 2015 | 0 | 49 | 22 | ||
| Sep 2014 | 16 | 22 | 1.4 | 18 | 1.13 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 19 | 35.5 | 21% | 37% | – |
| 2024/25 | 20 | 54.1 | 55% | 80% | – |
| 2023/24 | 16 | 46.6 | 50% | 75% | +0.28 |
| 2022/23 | 17 | 47.4 | 35% | 65% | +0.22 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Maharishi Free SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade202535.5Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 39.5Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · LancashireGood20222.4applications per place 41.6Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · LancashireGood20222.7applications per place 42.6Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 42.3Attainment 8
- 6.2 km · LancashireRemains Good20232.5applications per place 50.0Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · WiganGood20242.4applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · Wigan20263.5applications per place 50.4Attainment 8
- 6.9 km · St. Helens20262.4applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 137498 · 888/6018
- Trust
- Maharishi School Trust Ltd
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 240 pupils · 229 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 7 September 2011
- Replaced
- Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment (URN 119843)
- Address
- Cobbs Brow Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 6JJ
- Local authority
- Lancashire · West Lancashire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources