St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Blackpool·FY3 8BT
Composite score
27.3
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#13,785
National rank
#2120
In North West
#28
In Blackpool
Top 93%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
42%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
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
87%
31 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
77
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Blackpool 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 St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
214
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
29.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,542
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School at a glance

Located in Blackpool, St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 214 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 42% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 23.0 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 104 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Competition for places is real here - 87% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (31 first choices for 30 places). Overall pupil absence was 5.5%. There are about 20.2 pupils per teacher. St Kentigern's Catholic 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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