St Patrick's Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Morecambe, Lancashire·LA3 2ER
Composite score
37.1
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#11,811
National rank
#1762
In North West
#356
In Lancashire
Top 80%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
91%
33 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
46
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.19
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9020220.9620231.0020240.9120251.102026

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 Patrick's Catholic 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
194
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
39.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
4.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
17.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
60.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,216
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Patrick's Catholic Primary School at a glance

Located in Morecambe, Lancashire, St Patrick's Catholic Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 194 pupils aged 4 to 11. 57% 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 15.0 percentage points year on 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 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Patrick's Catholic Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 33 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 17.6%. There are about 22.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 40% 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. St Patrick's Catholic 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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