Accrington Peel Park Primary School

Foundation school·Primary school Accrington, Lancashire·BB5 6QR
Composite score
45.2
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#9,050
National rank
#1298
In North West
#272
In Lancashire
Top 61%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
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
100%
60 first choices, 71 places
First choices per place
0.84
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
170
any preference, for 71 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0920221.1820230.9420240.9420250.842026

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

Every child who put Accrington Peel Park 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
606
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
32.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
15.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
22.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Spend per pupil
£6,794
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Accrington Peel Park Primary School at a glance

Located in Accrington, Lancashire, Accrington Peel Park Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a foundation school. The school educates roughly 606 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 57% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 7.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on 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 102 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Accrington Peel Park Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 60 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.9%. Accrington Peel Park 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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