Rishton Methodist Primary School
Primary · Blackburn · BB1 4JF
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Standards maintained”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 19 March 2025
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
143 pupils · 63% of 226 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Methodist
- Free school meals
- 44.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 4.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 21.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.rishton.lancsngfl.ac.uk/
- URN
- 119396
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place24 places offered · 24 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
28 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)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
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
- 18 March 2025: Standards maintained
- 24 September 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- The Willows
- St Charles' Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- Rishton St Peter and St Paul's Church of England Primary School
- The Hyndburn Academy
- Clayton-le-Moors All Saints' Church of England Primary School
- Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School
- Great Harwood Primary School
- St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood