Holland Moor Primary School
Primary · Skelmersdale · WN8 9AG
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 11 February 2020
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412 pupils · 93% of 445 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 39.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 14% of pupils
- SEN support
- 6.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.6% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.holland.lancsngfl.ac.uk/
- URN
- 119323
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.83 first-choice applications per place53 places offered · 44 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)
58 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)
93% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school · 1% 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
- 25 March 2025: Standards maintained
- 11 February 2020: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Moorside Community Primary Academy School
- Bishop Martin Church of England Primary School
- Hope High School
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School
- Hillside Community Primary School
- Elm Tree Community Primary School
- St Thomas the Martyr Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School
- Delph Side Community Primary School