St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Preston
Primary · Preston · PR1 4RH
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 25 November 2025 · report published 21 January 2026
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214 pupils · 100% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 42.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 38.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.4% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 149317
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)
30 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)
76% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 23% moved to another state school
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
- 25 November 2025: Needs attention
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Fishwick Primary School
- St Matthew's Church of England Primary Academy
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Preston
- Brockholes Wood Community Primary School and Nursery
- Ribbleton Avenue Methodist Junior School
- Ribbleton Avenue Infant School
- The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School, Preston
- Preston Greenlands Community Primary School