The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Charles Saer Community Primary School

URN 119277 · Primary · Community school · Lancashire

Grange Road, Fleetwood, FY7 8DD

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

Ofsted category of concern: Special measures

At its inspection on 24 February 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, 30 families named Charles Saer Community Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 30 offers.

That is 1.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 53% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 53% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.82 in 2021–2022 and 0.98 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 30 75 30 1.00
2024 23 66 24 0.96
2023 29 82 30 0.97
2022 32 77 35 0.91
2021 30 95 41 0.73
2020 41 111 45 0.91
2019 39 99 45 0.87
2018 32 90 36 0.89
2017 43 99 45 0.96
2016 46 88 45 1.02
2015 31 72 34 0.91
2014 34 61 44 0.77

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 inspections from 2023 to 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 24 February 2026

Category of concern: Special measures

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Needs attention

Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement

Achievement: Urgent improvement

Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement

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 graded inspection (previous framework), 13 July 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 28.0% 0.0% 99.0 98.0
2023/24 41.0% 0.0% 102.0 99.0
2022/23 24.0% 0.0% 100.0 99.0

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 yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 15.0 12.0 1.0 2.0 20.0%
2023/24 18.0 13.0 3.0 2.0 27.8%
2022/23 16.8 14.2 0.0 2.6 15.5%
2021/22 16.8 15.8 0.0 1.0 6.0%
2020/21 15.9 14.2 0.0 1.7 10.7%
2019/20 16.9 15.9 1.0 0.0 5.9%

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 Charles Saer Community Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

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.