St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Sabden
Primary · Clitheroe · BB7 9ED
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 24 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
69 pupils · 77% of 90 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 24.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 14.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 5.9% of pupils
- URN
- 119651
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place5 places offered · 5 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)
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)
72% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 28% 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
- 24 November 2022: School remains Good
- 20 June 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Sabden Primary School
- Simonstone St Peter's Church of England Primary School
- Read St John's CofE Primary School
- Padiham St Leonard's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School
- Padiham Green Church of England Primary School
- Padiham Primary School
- St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Primary School, Padiham
- Altham St James Church of England Primary School