Thornton-Cleveleys Red Marsh School
Ofsted: Outstanding
- Type
- Community special school
- Location
- Blackpool, FY5 4HH
- Distance
- 0.1km away
Great Arley School
Holly Road, Thornton-Cleveleys, FY5 4HH
Ofsted: Good
Independent
Phase
99
Capacity
4-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2024 SATs · Ofsted inspection 17 April 2024.
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Cohort Size
- 17
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 94.0%
- Continued in education
- 94.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 0.0%
- Employment
- 0.0%
- Not sustained
- 0.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 107
- Boys
- 65 (66%)
- Girls
- 34 (34%)
- Capacity
- 99 (100% full)
- SEND
- 100.0%
- FSM Eligible
- 57.0%
- EAL
- 0.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 100.0%
- SEN Support
- 0.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 6.8:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 15.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £26,200/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 5.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 12.3% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Community special school
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Not applicable
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 94.3%
- Asian Other: 1.9%
- White Other: 0.9%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.9%
- Mixed Other: 0.9%
- Black African: 0.9%
94.3%
White British
1.9%
Asian Other
0.9%
White Other
Historical Trends
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Holly Road
Thornton-Cleveleys, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 119878
- UKPRN
- 10018022
- Establishment No.
- 7040
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