Leigh Central Primary School
Ofsted: Good
Score
C63
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Leigh, WN7 1UY
- Distance
- 0.0km away
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Leigh
Windermere Road, Leigh, WN7 1UX
Local ranking70th of 97 primary schools in Wigan
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Primary
Phase
315
Capacity
4-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 8 July 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
- Early years
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 51.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 0.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 60.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 60.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 64.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 56.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 103.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 103.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 100.0
- Cohort Size
- 45
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 298
- Boys
- 164 (55%)
- Girls
- 136 (45%)
- Capacity
- 315 (95% full)
- SEND
- 26.2%
- FSM Eligible
- 33.9%
- EAL
- 35.9%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.7%
- SEN Support
- 23.5%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 21.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 13.6
- Budget per Pupil
- £6,995/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 6.9% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 20.5% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 47.8%
- White Other: 13.8%
- Black African: 13.5%
- Asian Other: 8.4%
- Asian Pakistani: 5.4%
- Black Other: 2.7%
- Mixed Other: 2.4%
- Other: 2.4%
47.8%
White British
13.8%
White Other
13.5%
Black African
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Windermere Road
Leigh, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 106502
- UKPRN
- 10078700
- Establishment No.
- 3403
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