The School Record

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

Hawes Side Academy

URN 138538 · Primary · Academy converter · Blackpool

Johnsville Avenue, Blackpool, FY4 3LN

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, 25 families named Hawes Side Academy as their first preference, and the school made 28 offers.

That is 0.89 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 20% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 20% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.9 in 2021–2022 and 0.88 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 25 68 28 0.89
2024 31 66 36 0.86
2023 56 107 59 0.95
2022 52 109 59 0.88
2021 57 111 62 0.92
2020 59 108 61 0.97
2019 70 144 76 0.92
2018 79 177 80 0.99
2017 80 176 85 0.94
2016 69 195 87 0.79
2015 57 165 81 0.70
2014 71 195 80 0.89

“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 2019 to 202220192022

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 2 February 2022

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 14 November 2019

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

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 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 40.0% 0.0% 100.0 98.0
2023/24 22.0% 0.0% 99.0 99.0
2022/23 43.0% 0.0% 100.0 100.0

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 22.5 17.3 1.0 4.2 23.1%
2023/24 27.3 19.3 3.0 5.0 29.3%
2022/23 22.9 19.4 0.0 3.5 15.3%
2021/22 26.4 20.5 2.0 3.9 22.3%
2020/21 27.9 24.5 1.0 2.4 12.2%
2019/20 26.4 24.9 0.0 1.5 5.7%

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

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 Hawes Side Academy.

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.