Bleasdale School
Special / other · Carnforth · LA5 0RG
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 23 April 2024
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88 pupils · 100% of 85 capacity
- School type
- Community special school
- Age range
- 2–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 50% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 13.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 119861
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
8 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
no data
no data
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
- 23 April 2024: Outstanding
- 27 June 2023: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 11 July 2017: Yes - improving (outstanding)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Silverdale St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Arnside National CofE School
- Yealand Church of England Primary School
- Warton Archbishop Hutton's VC Primary School
- Storth CofE School
- Beetham CofE Primary School
- Carnforth Community Primary School
- Carnforth Christ Church, Church of England, Voluntary Aided Primary School