Frenchwood Community Primary School
Primary · Preston · PR1 4LE
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 10 February 2026 · report published 19 April 2026
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326 pupils · 100% of 298 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 26.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 59.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.7% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.frenchwood.lancs.sch.uk
- URN
- 119231
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.80 first-choice applications per place25 places offered · 20 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)
54 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
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)
79% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 14% left the state-funded sector
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
- 10 February 2026: Needs attention
- 4 February 2020: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 26 April 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Preston
- Christ The King Catholic High School
- Stoneygate Nursery School
- Lancaster University School of Mathematics
- Eden Boys' School, Preston
- St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School, Preston
- Walton-le-Dale, St Leonard's Church of England Primary School
- St Stephen's CofE School