Brockholes Wood Community Primary School and Nursery

Community school·Primary school Preston, Lancashire·PR1 5TU
Composite score
44.7
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#9,247
National rank
#1330
In North West
#279
In Lancashire
Top 62%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
58%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
23 first choices, 23 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
44
any preference, for 23 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8020220.8220230.9420240.9420251.002026

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

Every child who put Brockholes Wood Community Primary School and Nursery 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
202
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
43.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
23.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
14.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,058
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Brockholes Wood Community Primary School and Nursery is a primary school serving Preston, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 202 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 58% 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 11.0 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 104 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Brockholes Wood Community Primary School and Nursery was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 23 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 18.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 44% 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. Brockholes Wood Community Primary School and Nursery 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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