Fulwood and Cadley Primary School
URN 119151 · Primary · Community school · Lancashire
Cadley Causeway, Preston, PR2 3QT
Ofsted category of concern: Special measures
At its inspection on 3 March 2026 (Ofsted report card (current framework)), this school was placed in the category special measures.
Ofsted judged the school to be failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education, and not to have the capacity to make the necessary improvements without help.
This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.
How many families applied
Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.
In the 2025 intake, 29 families named Fulwood and Cadley Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 43 offers.
That is 0.67 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 2% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.
position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake
Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.73 in 2021–2022 and 0.78 in 2024–2025.
| Intake | 1st preferences | All preferences | Offers made | 1st prefs per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | 140 | 43 | 0.67 |
| 2024 | 40 | 159 | 45 | 0.89 |
| 2023 | 36 | 139 | 45 | 0.80 |
| 2022 | 32 | 120 | 45 | 0.71 |
| 2021 | 34 | 163 | 45 | 0.76 |
| 2020 | 42 | 156 | 46 | 0.91 |
| 2019 | 48 | 173 | 45 | 1.07 |
| 2018 | 43 | 198 | 45 | 0.96 |
| 2017 | 37 | 174 | 45 | 0.82 |
| 2016 | 53 | 189 | 45 | 1.18 |
| 2015 | 45 | 206 | 45 | 1.00 |
| 2014 | 53 | 201 | 45 | 1.18 |
“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.
Ofsted
Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.
Ofsted report card (current framework), 3 March 2026
Category of concern: Special measures
Safeguarding: Not met
Inclusion: Urgent improvement
Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement
Achievement: Urgent improvement
Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention
Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention
Early years: Needs attention
Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement
The current framework does not award an overall grade.
Ofsted's report for this school
Ofsted ungraded inspection, 20 January 2022
School remains Good
Ofsted's report for this school
Exam results
Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.
| Year | Expected standard in reading, writing & maths | Higher standard | Average reading score | Average maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 41.0% | 4.0% | 104.0 | 103.0 |
| 2023/24 | 49.0% | 4.0% | 101.0 | 102.0 |
| 2022/23 | 49.0% | 11.0% | 105.0 | 104.0 |
Teachers staying and leaving
These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.
| Census year | Teachers (FTE) | Still there a year later | Moved to another state school | Left state schools | Left in total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 12.5 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 5.8 | 46.4% |
| 2023/24 | 13.7 | 10.9 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 20.4% |
| 2022/23 | 12.5 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2021/22 | 12.9 | 11.9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 7.8% |
| 2020/21 | 13.4 | 13.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2019/20 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.
Catchment area
Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.
Where it is
The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Fulwood and Cadley Primary School.
- Queen's Drive Primary School: 0.6 km (0.3 miles) north-east, Preston
- The Roebuck School: 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south, Preston
- The Olive School, Preston: 1.1 km (0.7 miles) east, Preston
- Eldon Primary School: 1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east, Preston
- Harris Primary School: 1.5 km (1.0 miles) north-west, Preston
- Kennington Primary School: 1.6 km (1.0 miles) east, Preston
Nearby and related
- Other schools near Fulwood and Cadley Primary School
- All schools in Lancashire
- Schools in the PR2 postcode district
- What data we hold
- This page as JSON: the same figures, for software that would rather not read a web page
Where these figures come from
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase and address
Retrieved 2 September 2026 - Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2014 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: key stage 2 attainment. Reading, writing and maths outcomes, by school
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census
Retrieved 4 September 2026
This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.