Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Lancashire
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 |
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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 entry42 applications · 14 places offered · 10 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.0; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2025 2.7; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2024 3.5; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2023 3.6; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2022 3.7; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2021 2.9; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2020 4.7; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2019 2.6; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2018 4.0; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 3.1; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2016 4.2; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2015 3.7; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2014 3.0; Lancashire median median 2.4; as the previous school
- This school
- Lancashire median
Dashed bars: as St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Medlar-with-Wesham (URN 119629), the previous school.
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 | 14 | 42 | 3.0 | 10 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2025 | 14 | 38 | 2.7 | 12 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2024 * | 15 | 52 | 3.5 | 14 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2023 * | 8 | 29 | 3.6 | 6 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2022 * | 13 | 48 | 3.7 | 12 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2021 * | 15 | 43 | 2.9 | 15 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 9 | 42 | 4.7 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 14 | 37 | 2.6 | 11 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2018 * | 15 | 60 | 4.0 | 13 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2017 * | 15 | 47 | 3.1 | 15 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 15 | 63 | 4.2 | 16 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2015 * | 15 | 56 | 3.7 | 21 | 1.40 |
| Sep 2014 * | 15 | 45 | 3.0 | 14 | 0.93 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Medlar-with-WeshamThis schoolThis schoolGood20243.0applications per place
- 0.5 km · Lancashire20261.5applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · LancashireRemains Good20232.3applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · LancashireRemains Outstanding20223.5applications per place
- 1.1 km · LancashireRemains Good20242.9applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 2.7 km · Lancashire20269.0applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20253.1applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 3.6 km · LancashireGood20222.7applications per place
- 3.8 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20242.3applications per place 25%met the SATs standard
- 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
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 151087 · 888/3717
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 118 pupils · 100 on roll
- Free school meals
- 29.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 November 2024
- Replaced
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Medlar-with-Wesham (URN 119629)
- Address
- Garstang Road North, Medlar-with-Wesham, Wesham, Preston, PR4 3HA
- Local authority
- Lancashire · Fylde
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources