Hawes Side Academy
Primary · Blackpool · FY4 3LN
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 2 February 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
340 pupils · 54% of 630 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 38.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 5.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.7% of pupils
- Website
- www.hawes-side.co.uk
- URN
- 138538
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.88 first-choice applications per place26 places offered · 23 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)
83 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)
77% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school · 19% 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.
Inspection history since 2015
- 2 February 2022: Good
- 13 November 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.