Fulwood Academy
Secondary · Preston · PR2 9YR
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 6 June 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
973 pupils · 97% of 1,000 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 43% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 47.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 17.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.3% of pupils
- URN
- 135936
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.70 first-choice applications per place197 places offered · 138 first-choice applications · usually has places
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.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
139 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
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)
89% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 4% 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, academy 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.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 6 June 2023: Good
- 10 February 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 3
- 30 January 2020: Schools into Special Measures Visit 2
- 13 June 2019: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 26 February 2019: Inadequate
- 20 March 2018: Not taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 25 October 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Queen's Drive Primary School
- Our Lady's Catholic High School
- Corpus Christi Catholic High School
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, Preston
- Harris Primary School
- Archbishop Temple Church of England High School
- Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School, Preston
- St Clare's Catholic Primary School, Preston