Fleetwood Chaucer Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Fleetwood, Lancashire·FY7 6QN
Composite score
13.6
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#14,674
National rank
#2288
In North West
#453
In Lancashire
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
21%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
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
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%
28 first choices, 28 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
52
any preference, for 28 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Fleetwood Chaucer Community 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
267
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
71.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
12.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
25.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
9.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
30.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£9,196
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Fleetwood Chaucer Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Fleetwood, Lancashire, Fleetwood Chaucer Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 267 pupils aged 3 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 21% 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 32.0 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 103 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Fleetwood Chaucer Community Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 28 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 9.3%. There are about 18.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 71% 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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