Rishton St Peter and St Paul's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Blackburn · BB1 4DT
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 21 March 2023
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188 pupils · 90% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 34.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 6.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.2% of pupils
- URN
- 119427
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place26 places offered · 26 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)
20 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 · 6% 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
- 21 March 2023: Good
- 30 January 2018: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- The Hyndburn Academy
- St Charles' Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- The Willows
- Rishton Methodist Primary School
- Great Harwood Primary School
- St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood
- Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School
- Clayton-le-Moors All Saints' Church of England Primary School