The School Record

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

Anchorsholme Primary Academy

URN 140124 · Primary · Academy converter · Blackpool

Eastpines Drive, Thornton-Cleveleys, FY5 3RX

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, 68 families named Anchorsholme Primary Academy as their first preference, and the school made 74 offers.

That is 0.92 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 27% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 27% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.09 in 2021–2022 and 0.95 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 68 139 74 0.92
2024 80 169 81 0.99
2023 89 156 91 0.98
2022 95 161 86 1.10
2021 96 163 90 1.07
2020 61 142 67 0.91
2019 84 157 87 0.97
2018 76 148 80 0.95
2017 87 180 86 1.01
2016 72 156 77 0.94
2015 81 174 87 0.93
2014 71 147 75 0.95

“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 202520192025

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 8 January 2025

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 6 November 2019

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.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 53.0% 7.0% 103.0 103.0
2023/24 75.0% 7.0% 106.0 107.0
2022/23 73.0% 8.0% 105.0 105.0

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 29.3 26.7 0.0 2.6 8.9%
2023/24 28.2 23.6 2.0 2.6 16.3%
2022/23 28.0 26.0 1.0 1.0 7.1%
2021/22 28.4 27.0 0.0 1.4 4.9%
2020/21 27.5 26.4 0.0 1.1 4.0%
2019/20 27.1 24.9 1.0 1.2 8.1%

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 Anchorsholme Primary 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.