Banks Methodist School
Primary · Southport · PR9 8EY
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 6 January 2026 · report published 1 March 2026
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52 pupils
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Methodist
- Free school meals
- 49% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 4.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 19.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.8% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 119405
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.00 first-choice applications per place1 places offered · 0 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)
7 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)
92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% 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
- 6 January 2026: Needs attention
- 6 July 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.