Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School

Community school·Primary school Accrington, Lancashire·BB5 5NH
Composite score
50.7
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#7,012
National rank
#969
In North West
#211
In Lancashire
Top 48%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
60%
% achieving higher RWM
10%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
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
100%
34 first choices, 37 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
61
any preference, for 37 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
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1 per place
0.9420220.8420230.9720240.8220250.922026

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

Every child who put Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
342
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
39.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
12.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
19.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,209
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

About Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School

Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School is a primary school in Accrington, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 342 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 60% 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 9.0 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 around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 10% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 34 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 20.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 40% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant 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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