Brookfield Park Primary School

Community school·Primary school Skelmersdale, Lancashire·WN8 8EH
Composite score
61.1
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#3,632
National rank
#461
In North West
#99
In Lancashire
Top 25%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
76%
% achieving higher RWM
10%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
17 first choices, 20 places
First choices per place
0.85
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
45
any preference, for 20 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.15
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8620220.6820230.9120241.0020250.852026

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

Every child who put Brookfield Park 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
152
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
42.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
15.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
31.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
22.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,502
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Brookfield Park Primary School

Brookfield Park Primary School is a primary school in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 152 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. 76% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 24.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 25% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 10% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Brookfield Park Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 20 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 19.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 42% 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. If you are considering Brookfield Park Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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