Westminster Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Blackpool·FY1 2QE
Composite score
39.0
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#11,227
National rank
#1672
In North West
#18
In Blackpool
Top 76%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
60%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
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%
32 first choices, 38 places
First choices per place
0.84
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
46
any preference, for 38 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9420221.0020230.9320240.8620250.842026

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

Every child who put Westminster Primary Academy 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
405
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
71.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
21.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
23.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,331
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Westminster Primary Academy at a glance

Located in Blackpool, Westminster Primary Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 405 pupils aged 4 to 11. 60% 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%). Performance is little changed 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 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Westminster Primary Academy their first choice was offered one of its 38 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.9%. There are about 18.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 71% 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. Westminster Primary Academy 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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