Lea Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Preston, Lancashire·PR2 1PD
Composite score
39.0
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#11,227
National rank
#1672
In North West
#341
In Lancashire
Top 76%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
60%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
97%
33 first choices, 56 places
First choices per place
0.59
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
98
any preference, for 56 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.15
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320220.6520230.9220240.7320250.592026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Lancashire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Lea Community Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
266
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
36.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
12.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
23.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,990
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Lea Community Primary School is a primary school serving Preston, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 266 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 60% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 8.0 percentage points year on 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 106 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 97% of the families who made Lea Community Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 19.8 pupils per teacher. Lea Community 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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