St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Lea Town
Primary · Preston · PR4 0RJ
Data updated
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Standards maintained”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade. No graded inspection appears in Ofsted's records for this school since 2015 either, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Any earlier grade is on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 3 December 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
102 pupils · 97% of 105 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 14.7% of pupils (January 2026)
- URN
- 151968
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 23 families named it first for 15 Reception places, 1.53 first choices per place. We hold one Reception admissions round for it, 2026 entry, and it was not decided by a published distance. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.9% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.53 first-choice applications per place15 places offered · 23 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Cutoff by admission criterion (2026 entry)
- RC living in parish
- 2.1 miles
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Preston school admissions · Lancashire school admissions
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 80% (Lancashire 74%, England 60%) · Any other Mixed background 4% (Lancashire 2%, England 3%) · Any other White background 4% (Lancashire 3%, England 7%) · Asian Indian 3% (Lancashire 3%, England 4%) · Black African 3% (Lancashire 2%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 3% (Lancashire 1%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Lancashire 1%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Lancashire 0%, England 1%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
Staffing
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 5/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 7/10less deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 45.2% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 8.4% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 48.2% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 6.8% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 60.9% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 81.7% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 10% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 8.3% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 50.2% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 5.8% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 43.6% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 6.5% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01025272 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £228,000260 sales within 2 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £180,000–£291,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 2 km across every state school.
Fewer than ten homes sold within 1 km, so the figures use 2 km.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 2 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 1an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 0an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 2an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 0an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted
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