Maharishi Free School
Primary performance (KS2 SATs)
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Getting a place
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 Maharishi Free School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.
Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).
Secondary performance (KS4 GCSE)
Maharishi Free School is an all-through school covering ages 4–16, so it has two sets of results. The headline score above reflects its primary (KS2) results, ranked against other primaries; its GCSE (KS4) results — ranked separately against other secondaries — are shown here.
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Ofsted judgements
School profile
- Age range
- 4–16
- Pupils on roll
- 224
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-Selective
Pupil background
Special educational needs
Attendance
Staffing & funding
“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means
What pupils do next
The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.
DfE, KS4 destination measures.
Nearby primary schools
Location
Official sources
About Maharishi Free School
Maharishi Free School is an all-through school in Ormskirk, Lancashire, classified by the DfE as a free school. Around 224 pupils aged 4 to 16 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 50% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 10.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. At GCSE, the school's average Attainment 8 score was 54.1, above the national average of 46. On our composite score, Maharishi Free School ranks in the lower half of primary schools nationally for its primary (KS2) results. For its secondary (KS4) results, it ranks among the top 17% of secondary schools in England.
Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). At Key Stage 4, 55% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. Competition for places is real here - 85% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (20 first choices for 18 places). Overall pupil absence was 9.8%. There are about 14.5 pupils per teacher. Maharishi Free 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.