Shadsworth Infant School
Primary · Blackburn · BB1 2EL
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 4 December 2019
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
196 pupils · 89% of 220 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 40.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 20.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 30.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 12.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.shadsworthinfants.co.uk/
- URN
- 119220
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.84 first-choice applications per place58 places offered · 49 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
no data
no data
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no data
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
84% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 16% moved to another state school
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 25 March 2025: S5 Inspection
- 3 December 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.