Coates Lane Primary School

Community school·Primary school BARNOLDSWICK, Lancashire·BB18 6EZ
Composite score
24.0
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#14,149
National rank
#2184
In North West
#427
In Lancashire
Top 96%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
37%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
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%
16 first choices, 18 places
First choices per place
0.89
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
54
any preference, for 18 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.22
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9220220.8420230.7120240.6720250.892026

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

Every child who put Coates Lane 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
183
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,078
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Coates Lane Primary School is a primary school serving BARNOLDSWICK, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 183 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 37% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 4.0 percentage points compared with 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 105 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Coates Lane Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 18 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 24.1 pupils per teacher. Coates Lane 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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