St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup

St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup at a glance

Located in Bacup, Lancashire, St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 132 pupils aged 3 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 50% 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 risen by 36.0 percentage points year on year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to 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 97 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 61% 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 further down the page.