Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School

Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School has improved since its previous inspection and is now judged good across all key areas: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. Inspectors found a happy, inclusive and welcoming school where pupils behave well, feel cared for and are proud of their school. The school has high expectations and has made recent curriculum improvements that help new learning connect with prior learning, with strong systems for identifying gaps and revisiting topics. Reading and mathematics are particular strengths, and pupils with SEND are well supported and achieve well. Pupils benefit from a broad personal development offer, including clubs, visits, charity work and leadership roles, and attendance work is persistent and successful. Governors provide effective support, staff feel valued, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. However, the report identifies that the curriculum is not always delivered as well as the school intends. On occasion, activities do not match pupils’ needs, and staff do not routinely address insecure knowledge or misconceptions, so some pupils do not learn as well as they could. The inspection was a graded inspection under section 5, and because schools inspected from September 2024 are not given an overall effectiveness grade, the report gives separate judgements for each area. The school’s previous inspection grade was requires improvement, making the move to good in every judged area a notable improvement.

Strengths

• Inclusive, caring and welcoming school community
• Pupils behave well and are polite and respectful
• High expectations for what pupils can achieve
• Strong early reading programme with effective catch-up support
• Recent mathematics changes have improved pupils’ knowledge over time
• Effective support for pupils with SEND
• Persistent and creative work to improve attendance
• Broad range of clubs, visits and leadership opportunities
• Pupils develop character through charity and community work
• Governors provide effective support and staff feel valued
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum is sometimes not delivered as well as the school intends
• Teachers do not always select activities that match pupils’ needs
• Staff sometimes miss opportunities to address insecure knowledge during lessons
• Pupils’ gaps and misconceptions are not routinely identified and addressed
• Some pupils do not learn as well as they could because of inconsistent delivery

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.8% of pupils at Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School had 19.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 17.6% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 9.1% of pupils at Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School received £7,410 and spent £7,542 for each of its 320 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £10,000 (-£32 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School is Good, from an inspection in April 2025.

When was Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School was last inspected in April 2025.

How many pupils does Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School have?

Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School has 320 pupils on roll.

What age range does Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School cover?

Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 60% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School?

Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School is at Earl Street, Clayton-le-Moors, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 5NH.