St Wilfrid's Cof E Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Lancaster, Lancashire·LA2 6QE
Composite score
48.6
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#7,816
National rank
#1098
In North West
#235
In Lancashire
Top 53%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
64%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
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
82%
33 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.14
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
71
any preference, for 29 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.17
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7420220.9120231.0020240.9620251.142026

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 St Wilfrid's Cof E 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
235
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
12.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
2.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
7.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,160
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Wilfrid's Cof E Primary School at a glance

Located in Lancaster, Lancashire, St Wilfrid's Cof E Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 235 pupils aged 4 to 11. 64% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 1.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Wilfrid's Cof E Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 33 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.3%. There are about 21.1 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 12% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St Wilfrid's Cof E 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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