Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School

Community school·Primary school Fleetwood, Lancashire·FY7 7ND
Composite score
24.0
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#14,149
National rank
#2184
In North West
#427
In Lancashire
Top 96%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
37%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
33 first choices, 34 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
91
any preference, for 34 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1720220.9520230.8520241.0020250.972026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Fleetwood Flakefleet 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
450
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
55.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
6.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
21.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,315
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School is a primary school serving Fleetwood, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 450 pupils aged 2 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 37% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 25.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on 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 100 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 33 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 18.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 55% 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. Fleetwood Flakefleet 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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