Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School, Accrington

Ofsted's report card from its 30 June 2026 inspection grades Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School on 7 areas: 7 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Needs attention. "For several years, published data shows that pupils' attainment in reading, writing and mathematics has been below the national average."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "While whole school attendance rates are broadly in line with national average, some groups of pupils do not attend school often enough."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Leaders have ensured that there is a broad curriculum in place."

Early years - Needs attention. "The early years curriculum is ambitious and outlines what children should know and be able to do."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "The school does not have a consistent approach to identifying and assessing pupils' individual needs, including for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Leaders have not been wholly successful in ensuring that pupils achieve and behave as well as they should."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "Leaders' understanding of the school's context informs their design of the personal, social, health and economic education curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to build on their recent improvement work, so that the shortcomings in pupils' education and care across the school are resolved, leading to sustainable improvements"; "Those responsible for governance should continue to enhance their knowledge and expertise so that they are better able to hold leaders to account for the quality of the school's work and pupils' achievements"; "Leaders should further raise the aspirations of what pupils can and should achieve, so that pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who are disadvantaged are supported to achieve all that they can so they are ready for their next steps in learning"; "Leaders should ensure that gaps in pupils' foundational knowledge and skills are identified and addressed quickly"; "Leaders should support staff to provide suitable adaptations for pupils who face barriers to their learning, so that the aims of the curriculum are realised and pupils are supported to learn and apply more of what they are taught"; "Leaders should ensure that staff are supported to implement the early years curriculum effectively and engage in high-quality interactions with children within the provision, so that children are supported to learn all that they need to prepare them for Year 1"; "Leaders should ensure that staff are supported to apply agreed behaviour systems and procedures consistently well, so that pupils behave well across the school day, including at social times"; "Leaders should ensure that persistent absenteeism reduces, so that pupils' attendance improves and they do not miss important learning and attend school more regularly".

In its own words: "At Hyndburn Park, children are at the heart of all that we do. We hope to inspire, nurture and encourage everyone to aim high, work hard, and fulfil their potential. We promote a love of learning, and encourage everyone in school to become, and remain, independent, confident, thoughtful and considerate members of society, able to make well-informed decisions."

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils at Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 52% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 74% in Lancashire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 71% in reading and 67% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 60 families put Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School as their first choice and 121 named it as one of their preferences, for 59 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 3 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School are Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School, Church (0.4 miles, Requires improvement, 65% reading, 75% maths); St Nicholas Church of England Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 68% reading, 82% maths); Accrington St Mary Magdalen's Church of England Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 73% reading, 73% maths); and Accrington Spring Hill Community Primary School (0.5 miles, Requires improvement, 40% reading, 50% maths).

Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

60.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 40 pupils (9.2%) received SEN support and 11 (2.5%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest railway station is Accrington Rail Station, about 640 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Gatty Park (opposite), 180 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 3rd decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 534 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Lancashire (109), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School issued 25 suspensions, 5.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School are Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School (0.4 miles); Accrington Academy (0.5 miles); Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, Hyndburn (0.7 miles); and Rhyddings (0.8 miles).