Devonshire Primary Academy
Primary · Blackpool · FY3 8AF
Not yet graded
No graded inspection outcome is available for this school under either the current or the previous framework. This is common for recently opened or converted schools.
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
451 pupils · 96% of 472 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 67.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 18.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 23.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.7% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 140128
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 60 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)
60 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, 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
- 26 November 2024: Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 3
- 4 May 2022: Leaders and those responsible for governance are taking effective action in order for the school to become a good school
- 2 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 14 January 2020: Requires improvement
- 12 February 2019: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 13 September 2017: Requires improvement
- 15 December 2015: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.