Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School

Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School is a small, welcoming school within The Lune Valley Federation. Inspectors found safeguarding standards met and provision at least expected across the board, with attendance and behaviour standing out. Pupils are known individually, behave well, attend regularly and benefit from caring relationships, inclusive support and a broad curriculum. Leaders, including a relatively new headteacher, have an accurate view of the school and have taken decisive action to improve the curriculum and support for pupils with additional needs. Strengths include highly effective attendance work, consistently positive behaviour, strong inclusion for pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils, and a reading-focused curriculum from the early years. Pupils enjoy enrichment and develop confidence and responsibility. However, end-of-key-stage-2 outcomes have been variable and recent combined attainment in reading, writing and mathematics has been below national averages. In some subjects, pupils do not build knowledge securely over time, and some older pupils' spelling, handwriting and grammar errors hinder written communication. The early years curriculum and personal development programme are not fully precise in places, and pupils' understanding of life beyond their immediate community is less developed. Next steps focus on refining early years and personal development planning, ensuring teachers design activities that build secure knowledge over time, and making sure older pupils' writing errors are identified and corrected.

Strengths

• Pupils are polite, respectful and fully engaged, with consistently positive behaviour across the school.
• Attendance is well above national average for most pupils, including vulnerable pupils, and persistent absence is low.
• Leaders provide highly effective, sustained support to remove attendance barriers and work well with parents and carers.
• Pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils make suitable progress from their starting points and access the same curriculum.
• The curriculum is ambitious and teachers have secure subject knowledge, with reading prioritised from the start.
• Early years children make a positive start, with strong communication and language development.
• Staff adapt teaching and use additional resources well to support pupils with barriers to learning.
• Leaders have an accurate understanding of strengths and have taken decisive action to improve curriculum and additional-needs support.
• Governors fulfil statutory duties well and support and challenge leaders effectively.
• Pupils develop confidence, responsibility, resilience and understanding of healthy relationships and online safety.
• A wide range of enrichment, clubs and residential visits helps pupils develop new skills and interests.

Areas for Improvement

• End-of-key-stage-2 outcomes have been variable, and combined attainment in reading, writing and mathematics has been below national average in recent years.
• In some subjects, teachers do not consistently design activities that help pupils build secure knowledge over time.
• Some older pupils make spelling, handwriting and grammar errors that hinder their written communication across the curriculum.
• In some aspects of the early years curriculum, staff are not clear about the precise knowledge to emphasise, so some children do not gain the knowledge they need.
• Pupils' understanding of life beyond their immediate community is less developed, sometimes limiting their appreciation of diversity in modern Britain.

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 Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.1% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Leck St Peter's Church of England 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 Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School had 11.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 15.8% of pupils at Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.6% 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 Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School received £12,839 and spent £12,941 for each of its 36 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £83,000 (£2,307 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 Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in July 2026.

When was Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School was last inspected in July 2026.

How many pupils does Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School have?

Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School has 38 pupils on roll.

What age range does Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School cover?

Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 40% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School?

Leck St Peter's Church of England Primary School is at Leck, Via Carnforth, Lancashire, LA6 2JD.