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St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy

Accrington, BB5 2AN · Lancashire · primary school

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Ofsted: Inadequate · 2023 Inspected 3 years ago Mixed Primary Roman Catholic
0.5/10 Well below average

443rd of 448 primary schools in Lancashire we can score, 481 in total — the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.

Its results hold up when the comparison narrows to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds — 0.5/10 against 2,004 of them, against 0.7/10 nationally. So this is not simply a reflection of who attends. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.

How this is worked out
MeasurePercentileWeightAdds
Expected standard (RWM) 2024/25 36.0 · 6 40% 0.22
Ofsted 0 35% 0.01
Higher standard (RWM) 2024/25 0.0 · 10 25% 0.26

Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.

Get to know the school

How it's doing. In 2024/25, 36.0% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing, and maths, compared to the national median of 64%. Only 0.0% reached the higher standard. Its results are much the same when the comparison narrows to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds, so the gap is not explained by intake (0.5 out of 10 against similar schools, 0.7 out of 10 against all schools). Ofsted rated the school Inadequate in January 2023.

Beyond the classroom. Pupils join a choir and Forest School, and participate in tchoukball, goalball, kurling, boccia, learn to ride, scooter club, yoga, and dodgeball. Both a breakfast club and an after-school club are available.

Getting in. The school has 129 pupils in a capacity of 210 places, leaving 81 spare places. This means the school has real spare room, so a place is likely and classes are smaller than it is built for.

Worth asking on a visit. How is the school addressing the specific areas highlighted in the 2023 Ofsted report? What support structures are in place to help pupils reach the expected standard in core subjects? How does the school utilise its current spare capacity to maintain small class sizes?

Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.

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