Graded inspection · Mar 2025 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 |
Inspection history
- 25 March 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade · as St Charles' RC School, URN 119650
- 29 January 2020Ungraded inspection: School remains Good · as St Charles' RC School, URN 119650
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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 entry61 applications · 20 places offered · 19 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.1; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2025 2.4; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2024 3.9; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2023 2.7; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2022 2.7; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2021 2.6; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2020 2.9; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2019 3.0; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2018 2.3; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 2.1; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2016 2.3; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2015 2.7; Lancashire median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2014 2.2; Lancashire median median 2.4; as the previous school
- This school
- Lancashire median
Dashed bars: as St Charles' RC School (URN 119650), 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 | 20 | 61 | 3.1 | 19 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2025 * | 28 | 66 | 2.4 | 27 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2024 * | 14 | 54 | 3.9 | 14 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 * | 19 | 51 | 2.7 | 16 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2022 * | 16 | 43 | 2.7 | 16 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 * | 27 | 69 | 2.6 | 27 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 30 | 87 | 2.9 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2019 * | 16 | 48 | 3.0 | 15 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2018 * | 27 | 61 | 2.3 | 27 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 63 | 2.1 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 29 | 66 | 2.3 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2015 * | 20 | 54 | 2.7 | 19 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2014 * | 27 | 58 | 2.2 | 27 | 1.00 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Charles' Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.1applications per place
- 0.3 km · LancashireStandards maintained20251.9applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 0.5 km · LancashireGood20232.5applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · LancashireGood20232.5applications per place 44%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · LancashireGood20232.2applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · LancashireGood20232.6applications per place 27%met the SATs standard
- 2.1 km · LancashireImproved significantly20252.9applications per place 78%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · LancashireRemains Good20242.6applications per place 42%met the SATs standard
- 2.3 km · Lancashire20262.3applications per place 68%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
- 152199 · 888/3752
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 161 on roll
- Free school meals
- 17.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2026
- Replaced
- St Charles' RC School (URN 119650)
- Address
- Knowles Street, Rishton, Blackburn, BB1 4HT
- Local authority
- Lancashire · Hyndburn
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources