The School Record

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

Baines School

URN 119813 · Secondary · Voluntary aided school · Lancashire

Highcross Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, FY6 8BE

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, 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, 99 families named Baines School as their first preference, and the school made 152 offers.

That is 0.65 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 13% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 13% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.66 in 2021–2022 and 0.64 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 99 403 152 0.65
2024 77 398 122 0.63
2023 96 445 164 0.59
2022 102 435 179 0.57
2021 126 477 170 0.74
2020 113 498 179 0.63
2019 115 509 191 0.60
2018 130 537 169 0.77
2017 122 524 168 0.73
2016 115 507 158 0.73
2015 170 567 165 1.03
2014 171 597 181 0.94

“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 inspections from 2023 to 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 24 March 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 31 October 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Requires improvement

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 45.80 - 65.5% 14.3%
2023/24 44.00 -0.59
likely between -0.80 and -0.38		 61.2% 7.1%
2022/23 42.90 -0.79
likely between -1.01 and -0.56		 62.4% 7.0%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

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 58.8 48.7 5.0 5.1 17.2%
2023/24 53.3 50.3 2.0 1.0 5.6%
2022/23 50.1 38.6 5.9 5.6 23.0%
2021/22 49.3 44.9 2.4 2.0 8.9%
2020/21 49.3 42.3 2.6 4.4 14.2%
2019/20 46.6 43.0 1.4 2.2 7.7%

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

Lancashire publishes an admission zone for this school (Baines School).

Covers: 901 live postcodes across 49.868 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Hodgson Academy and Millfield School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

33 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Baines School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Baines 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.