Thornton Cleveleys Royles Brook Primary School

Community school·Primary school Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire·FY5 2TY
Composite score
25.7
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#13,987
National rank
#2157
In North West
#422
In Lancashire
Top 94%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
36%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
30 first choices, 34 places
First choices per place
0.88
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
80
any preference, for 34 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Thornton Cleveleys Royles Brook Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
5–11
Pupils on roll
297
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
19.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
1.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,213
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

School overview

Thornton Cleveleys Royles Brook Primary School is a primary school serving Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 297 pupils aged 5 to 11 on roll. 36% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 5.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 101 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Thornton Cleveleys Royles Brook Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 34 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.8%. There are about 21.5 pupils per teacher. Thornton Cleveleys Royles Brook Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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