Trumacar Nursery and Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Morecambe, Lancashire·LA3 2ST
Composite score
29.0
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#13,556
National rank
#2079
In North West
#403
In Lancashire
Top 92%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
41%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
92%
36 first choices, 45 places
First choices per place
0.80
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
81
any preference, for 45 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8120220.8020230.8720240.8420250.802026

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 Trumacar Nursery and 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
334
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
43.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
21.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,559
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Trumacar Nursery and Community Primary School is a primary school serving Morecambe, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 334 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Trumacar Nursery and Community Primary School 'Good'. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 41% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 18.0 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 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 92% of the families who made Trumacar Nursery and 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 7.5%. There are about 20.8 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. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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