St Peter's CofE Primary School

Primary · Accrington · BB5 0NW

Needs attention

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Expected standardAchievement: Needs attentionAttendance & behaviour: Expected standardPersonal development: Expected standardInclusion: Expected standardLeadership & governance: Expected standardEarly years: Expected standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 21 April 2026 · report published 7 June 2026

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At a glance

114 pupils · 54% of 210 capacity

School type: Voluntary controlled school
Age range: 5–11
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England
Free school meals: 50% of pupils
English as additional language: 59.2% of pupils
SEN support: 17.7% of pupils
EHC plan: 9.2% of pupils
Website: www.st-peters.lancs.sch.uk/
URN: 119386

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.50 first-choice applications per place

12 places offered · 6 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20

20/21

21/22

22/23

23/24

24/25

25/26

26/27

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)

18 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths

50%

England 62%

Reaching the higher standard

England 8%

Average scaled score (reading)

104

England 106

Average scaled score (maths)

105

England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)

4.4%

England 6.5%

Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)

13%

England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher

14.3

England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

98% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% 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

This school£9,688

Typical primary school£6,960

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

21 April 2026: Needs attention (report card inspection)
8 March 2022: Good (graded inspection)
2 May 2018: Requires improvement (graded inspection)

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

Nearby schools

St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School, AccringtonNot yet graded · Primary · 0.1 mi
Green Haworth Church of England Primary SchoolGood · Primary · 0.3 mi
Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, HyndburnExpected standard · Secondary · 0.5 mi
Accrington Spring Hill Community Primary SchoolRequires improvement · Primary · 0.6 mi
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, OswaldtwistleGood · Primary · 0.7 mi
Fairfield Nursery SchoolGood · Nursery · 0.7 mi
Oswaldtwistle Hippings Methodist Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood · Primary · 0.7 mi
Accrington Woodnook Primary SchoolGood · Primary · 0.8 mi

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