Preston Greenlands Community Primary School

Preston Greenlands Community Primary School has improved since its previous inspection and is now judged good across the key areas inspected. Pupils are happy, attend well and behave well, and they benefit from warm relationships, a welcoming culture and a wide range of trips, roles and extra-curricular activities. The school has strengthened its curriculum and has high expectations for pupils’ achievement, including in mathematics, and staff have strong subject knowledge. Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are identified quickly and generally supported well, while children in the Reception Year benefit from a well-designed early years environment. Safeguarding is effective, and governors and staff speak positively about the school. Under the current inspection framework, no overall effectiveness grade was given.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, proud of their school and attend well.
• Pupils behave well and show good manners, supported by warm relationships.
• The curriculum is broad, ambitious and has been strengthened since the previous inspection.
• Teachers generally have strong subject knowledge and design activities that help pupils secure curriculum knowledge.
• Pupils with SEND are identified swiftly and typically supported well.
• The Reception Year environment is engaging and well designed, with a strong focus on communication and language.
• Reading is a priority, with consistent phonics teaching and books matched to pupils’ sounds.
• Pupils’ wider development is enriched through trips, visits, responsibilities and extra-curricular activities.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Governors know the school well and staff feel supported, including over workload.

Areas for Improvement

• A small number of pupils do not receive sufficiently timely and appropriate support to become confident, fluent readers.
• Some older pupils have gaps in their knowledge because of weaknesses in the previous curriculum.
• In a small number of subjects, teachers do not check or address pupils’ prior knowledge before introducing new learning.
• As a result, some pupils’ knowledge in these subjects is not as secure as it could be.

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 Preston Greenlands Community Primary School attended 93.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 22.2% 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, 1.6% of pupils at Preston Greenlands Community 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 Preston Greenlands Community Primary School had 22.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.7% 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, 12.0% of pupils at Preston Greenlands Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.5% 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 Preston Greenlands Community Primary School received £7,926 and spent £7,890 for each of its 192 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £96,000 (£498 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 Preston Greenlands Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Preston Greenlands Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Preston Greenlands Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Preston Greenlands Community Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Preston Greenlands Community Primary School have?

Preston Greenlands Community Primary School has 191 pupils on roll.

What age range does Preston Greenlands Community Primary School cover?

Preston Greenlands Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Preston Greenlands Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 53% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Preston Greenlands Community Primary School?

Preston Greenlands Community Primary School is at Dawnay Road, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 6BB.