Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled Primary School

Voluntary controlled school·Primary school Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire·FY5 5HY
Composite score
33.8
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#12,644
National rank
#1898
In North West
#377
In Lancashire
Top 86%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
52%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
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
96%
27 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
97
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.47
00.511.52
1 per place
1.0020220.8520231.1020241.3720250.902026

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 Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
199
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
1.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,795
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled Primary School at a glance

Located in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary controlled school. The school educates roughly 199 pupils aged 4 to 11. 52% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 11.0 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 106 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 96% of the families who made Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled 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 4.7%. There are about 24.9 pupils per teacher. Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled 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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