Delph Side Community Primary School
Primary · Skelmersdale · WN8 6ED
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 9 January 2020
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
251 pupils · 100% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 43.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 13.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 17.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 5.7% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 119304
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.14 first-choice applications per place29 places offered · 33 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
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)
26 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)
85% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 15% 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
- 1 October 2024: S5 Inspection
- 8 January 2020: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 25 May 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Hillside Community Primary School
- St John's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School
- Little Digmoor Primary School
- Elm Tree Community Primary School
- Bishop Martin Church of England Primary School
- Woodland Community Primary School
- St Edmund's Catholic Primary School