Eden Boys' School, Preston
Secondary · Preston · PR1 4BD
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Outstanding. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 16 May 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
615 pupils · 77% of 800 capacity
- School type
- Free schools
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Boys
- Religious character
- Muslim
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 26% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 47.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1% of pupils
- Website
- www.edenboyspreston.com
- URN
- 141971
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.96 first-choice applications per place121 places offered · 116 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.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
124 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)
83% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 10% 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
- 15 May 2024: School remains Outstanding
- 2 May 2018: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Lancaster University School of Mathematics
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Preston
- Frenchwood Community Primary School
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Preston
- Stoneygate Nursery School
- St Matthew's Church of England Primary Academy
- Preston Muslim Girls High School
- St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School, Preston