The School Record

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

Penwortham Priory Academy

URN 138948 · Secondary · Academy converter · Lancashire

Crow Hills Road, Preston, PR1 0JE

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, 153 families named Penwortham Priory Academy as their first preference, and the school made 150 offers.

That is 1.02 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 63% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 63% 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 0.98 in 2021–2022 and 0.98 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 153 514 150 1.02
2024 139 549 149 0.93
2023 150 503 149 1.01
2022 169 511 148 1.14
2021 114 423 138 0.83
2020 122 458 145 0.84
2019 134 462 175 0.77
2018 162 501 180 0.90
2017 147 447 161 0.91
2016 143 426 158 0.91
2015 125 387 139 0.90
2014 94 351 101 0.93

“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 2020 to 202520202025

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 26 March 2025

Standards maintained

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 3 March 2020

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

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 43.20 - 60.0% 9.0%
2023/24 40.50 -0.36
likely between -0.59 and -0.13		 58.6% 11.8%
2022/23 45.30 -0.18
likely between -0.39 and 0.04		 64.0% 12.8%

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 41.1 36.1 0.0 5.0 12.2%
2023/24 39.5 37.6 1.0 0.9 4.8%
2022/23 40.9 33.5 3.6 3.8 18.1%
2021/22 41.4 37.4 0.0 4.0 9.7%
2020/21 42.9 40.6 1.0 1.3 5.4%
2019/20 42.6 38.8 3.0 0.8 8.9%

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

Lancashire publishes an admission zone for this school (Penwortham Priory Academy).

Covers: 1,119 live postcodes across 53.526 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Ashton Community Science College, Broughton High School, Lostock Hall Academy and Penwortham Girls' High School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

298 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 Penwortham Priory Academy. 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 Penwortham Priory 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.