Bacup Thorn Primary School
Ofsted: Good
Score
C56
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Bacup, OL13 8EF
- Distance
- 0.8km away
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School
Officially St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Tong Lane, Bacup, OL13 9LJ
Local ranking452nd of 466 primary schools in Lancashire
Ofsted: Needs attention
Primary
Phase
210
Capacity
3-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum & teaching
- Needs attention
- Attendance & behaviour
- Needs attention
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership & governance
- Needs attention
- Inclusion
- Needs attention
- Early years
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 15.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 0.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 48.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 30.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 30.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 37.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 99.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 96.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 97.0
- Cohort Size
- 27
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 140
- Boys
- 77 (55%)
- Girls
- 63 (45%)
- Capacity
- 210 (67% full)
- SEND
- 31.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 76.2%
- EAL
- 12.1%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 6.4%
- SEN Support
- 25.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 11.5:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.9
- Budget per Pupil
- £11,584/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.9% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 25.4% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 80.7%
- Black African: 4.3%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 2.1%
- Mixed White & Black African: 2.1%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.1%
- Mixed Other: 2.1%
- White Other: 1.4%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.4%
80.7%
White British
4.3%
Black African
2.1%
Mixed White & Black Caribbean
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Administrative
- URN
- 147592
- UKPRN
- 10084733
- Establishment No.
- 2008
- Trust
- ROMERO CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST
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