Accrington St John with St Augustine Church of England Primary School
Primary · Accrington · BB5 6AD
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 17 May 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
207 pupils · 99% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 38.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 8.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 5.4% of pupils
- URN
- 119445
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.53 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 46 first-choice applications · heavily 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)
25 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)
78% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 11% moved to another state school · 11% 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
- 17 May 2023: Good
- 22 February 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
- Accrington Peel Park Primary School
- Accrington St Mary Magdalen's Church of England Primary School
- Accrington Benjamin Hargreaves Church of England Primary School
- Accrington Academy
- Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School
- St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
- Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School
- Lee Royd Nursery School