{"url":"/school/144646/bay-leadership-academy","urn":144646,"name":"Bay Leadership Academy","phase":"secondary","type":"Academy sponsor led","local_authority":"Lancashire","address":{"line1":"Osborne Road","town":"Morecambe","postcode":"LA3 1AB","latitude":54.059897,"longitude":-2.878501},"ofsted":{"current_category_of_concern":null,"inspections":[{"framework":"oeif","framework_label":"Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework)","inspection_date":"2022-10-12","overall_effectiveness":"Good","category_of_concern":null,"note":"The current framework awards no overall grade; a previous-framework grade is not a school's current one."}]},"demand":{"entry_point":"year_7","measure":"first preferences expressed divided by offers made","not_a_prediction":"It describes demand. It does not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.","movement":{"headline":"More families are naming it first","earlier_span":"2021–2022","later_span":"2024–2025","earlier_ratio":0.9,"later_ratio":1.36,"years_used":5},"by_year":[{"intake_year":2025,"first_preferences":219,"all_preferences":409,"offers_made":147,"first_preferences_per_place":1.49,"national_percentile":92.0},{"intake_year":2024,"first_preferences":178,"all_preferences":364,"offers_made":144,"first_preferences_per_place":1.24,"national_percentile":82.0},{"intake_year":2023,"first_preferences":178,"all_preferences":346,"offers_made":149,"first_preferences_per_place":1.19,"national_percentile":78.0},{"intake_year":2022,"first_preferences":160,"all_preferences":295,"offers_made":178,"first_preferences_per_place":0.9,"national_percentile":38.0},{"intake_year":2021,"first_preferences":132,"all_preferences":229,"offers_made":148,"first_preferences_per_place":0.89,"national_percentile":39.0},{"intake_year":2020,"first_preferences":106,"all_preferences":221,"offers_made":143,"first_preferences_per_place":0.74,"national_percentile":21.0},{"intake_year":2019,"first_preferences":110,"all_preferences":223,"offers_made":154,"first_preferences_per_place":0.71,"national_percentile":19.0}]},"results":{"note":"Withheld figures appear as null, never zero. Progress measures are estimates published with a 95% interval.","key_stage_4":[{"academic_year":2024,"attainment8":36.8,"progress8":null,"progress8_confidence_interval":null,"english_and_maths_grade_4_plus_percent":52.4,"ebacc_grade_4_plus_percent":19.0},{"academic_year":2023,"attainment8":34.6,"progress8":-0.52,"progress8_confidence_interval":[-0.78,-0.26],"english_and_maths_grade_4_plus_percent":47.4,"ebacc_grade_4_plus_percent":19.3},{"academic_year":2022,"attainment8":29.6,"progress8":-0.87,"progress8_confidence_interval":[-1.15,-0.6],"english_and_maths_grade_4_plus_percent":34.6,"ebacc_grade_4_plus_percent":10.3}],"key_stage_2":[]},"workforce":{"note":"Full-time equivalents, not headcounts. Teacher turnover only: carries no claim about heads or senior leaders.","by_year":[{"academic_year":2024,"teacher_fte":44.9,"remained":39.9,"left_the_system":4.0,"left_to_other_school":1.0,"left_percent":11.1},{"academic_year":2023,"teacher_fte":44.1,"remained":37.1,"left_the_system":2.0,"left_to_other_school":5.0,"left_percent":15.9},{"academic_year":2022,"teacher_fte":44.1,"remained":39.9,"left_the_system":1.8,"left_to_other_school":2.5,"left_percent":9.8},{"academic_year":2021,"teacher_fte":40.1,"remained":38.1,"left_the_system":1.0,"left_to_other_school":1.0,"left_percent":5.0},{"academic_year":2020,"teacher_fte":42.7,"remained":38.7,"left_the_system":3.0,"left_to_other_school":1.0,"left_percent":9.4},{"academic_year":2019,"teacher_fte":43.4,"remained":36.2,"left_the_system":3.0,"left_to_other_school":4.2,"left_percent":16.6}]},"catchment":{"status":"none_published","note":"no_zone_published means we hold no zone for this school. It does not mean an address is outside one.","zones":[]},"how_places_were_allocated":[],"how_the_places_were_shared_out":[],"sources":[{"label":"Department for Education: Get Information about Schools","detail":"School identity, type, phase and address","url":"https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/","retrieved":"2026-09-02"},{"label":"Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information","detail":"Inspection outcomes, published monthly","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/monthly-management-information-ofsteds-school-inspections-outcomes","retrieved":"2026-09-04"},{"label":"Department for Education: school-level applications and offers","detail":"Preferences and offers, 2019 to 2025 intakes","url":"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/primary-and-secondary-school-applications-and-offers","retrieved":"2026-09-04"},{"label":"Department for Education: key stage 4 performance","detail":"Attainment 8, Progress 8 and EBacc, by school","url":"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance","retrieved":"2026-09-04"},{"label":"Department for Education: school workforce in England","detail":"Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census","url":"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england","retrieved":"2026-09-04"}]}