Graded inspection · Jan 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 entry54 applications · 21 places offered · 20 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.6; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2025 2.5; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2024 2.4; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2023 2.2; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2022 2.2; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2021 2.7; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2020 2.3; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2019 2.3; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2018 2.4; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 2.2; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2016 1.9; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.7; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2014 2.1; Lancashire median median 2.4; as the previous school
- This school
- Lancashire median
Dashed bars: as St Maria Goretti Catholic Primary School, Preston (URN 119608), 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 | 21 | 54 | 2.6 | 20 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2025 * | 26 | 65 | 2.5 | 22 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2024 * | 22 | 52 | 2.4 | 22 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 * | 30 | 65 | 2.2 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 * | 25 | 55 | 2.2 | 20 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2021 * | 26 | 70 | 2.7 | 23 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2020 * | 30 | 68 | 2.3 | 23 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2019 * | 18 | 41 | 2.3 | 16 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2018 * | 30 | 73 | 2.4 | 26 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2017 * | 29 | 63 | 2.2 | 29 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 28 | 52 | 1.9 | 23 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 52 | 1.7 | 23 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2014 * | 24 | 51 | 2.1 | 15 | 0.63 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Maria Goretti Catholic Primary School, PrestonThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.6applications per place
- 0.4 km · Lancashire20262.1applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 0.5 km · LancashireGood20221.8applications per place 76%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · LancashireGood20222.6applications per place 26%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20252.6applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Lancashire20262.4applications per place 36%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Lancashire20252.5applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · Lancashire20261.4applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · LancashireRemains Good20241.9applications per place 58%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
- 151966 · 888/3645
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 222 pupils · 196 on roll
- Free school meals
- 33.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 January 2026
- Replaced
- St Maria Goretti Catholic Primary School, Preston (URN 119608)
- Address
- Gamull Lane, Ribbleton, Preston, PR2 6SJ
- Local authority
- Lancashire · Preston
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources