St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Withnell
Primary · Chorley · PR6 8SD
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 8 October 2019
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92 pupils · 88% of 105 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 7.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 8.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4% of pupils
- Website
- www.stjosephswithnell.co.uk
- URN
- 119680
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place17 places offered · 17 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)
14 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
- 17 December 2024: Standards maintained
- 8 October 2019: Outstanding
- 11 September 2018: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Abbey Village Primary School
- Brinscall St John's CofE and Methodist Primary School
- Meadow View Learning Centre
- Withnell Fold Primary School
- St Stephen's Tockholes CofE Primary School
- Feniscowles Primary School
- Brindle St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- St Paul's Roman Catholic Primary School, Feniscowles, Blackburn