Accrington Woodnook Primary School
Primary · Accrington · BB5 2HS
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 27 January 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
220 pupils · 77% of 285 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 48.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 52.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 0.9% of pupils
- Website
- www.woodnookschool.co.uk/
- URN
- 119341
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.10 first-choice applications per place30 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)
27 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)
91% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% 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
- 4 March 2025: S5 Inspection
- 26 January 2023: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 20 September 2017: Good
- 8 July 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 14 October 2015: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Lee Royd Nursery School
- Accrington Benjamin Hargreaves Church of England Primary School
- St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
- Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, Hyndburn
- Accrington Spring Hill Community Primary School
- The Hollins
- St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School, Accrington
- St Peter's CofE Primary School