Ashton Primary School, Preston
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 5 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Ashton Primary provides a warm, inclusive community where children feel genuinely cared for and enjoy coming to school. Staff handle behaviour consistently, creating a calm environment where bullying is rare and quickly addressed. The school offers excellent enrichment through clubs, trips and activities that develop pupils's talents and broaden their horizons, while ensuring disadvantaged pupils get equal access to these opportunities.
Key Strengths
- Strong safeguarding culture with clear processes to keep pupils safe and identify concerns quickly
- Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, helping them make good progress
- Excellent personal development programme building pupils' understanding of different cultures, healthy relationships and British values
- Well-planned enrichment activities and trips designed to broaden all pupils' experiences, including disadvantaged pupils
- New leadership team taking decisive action to improve curriculum and teaching, particularly in reading, writing and mathematics
Areas for Improvement
- Achievement in reading, writing and mathematics is below national average, particularly by Year 6 and in the Year 1 phonics screening check
- Curriculum design is not yet secure enough in all subjects to ensure pupils grasp key knowledge reliably
- Teachers' checks on what pupils know are not consistently spotting and addressing gaps in learning
- Governing body needs to strengthen quality assurance to better understand the impact of curriculum weaknesses on pupil progress
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified and managed, resulting in pupils feeling safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Ultraviolet dodgeball, musical instrument learning, clog dancing, local heritage visits and trips, community charity work
Ashton Primary School provides a safe, inclusive environment where pupils feel valued and enjoy learning. However, the school is working to improve curriculum design and teaching quality to raise achievement in key subjects.
At a Glance
36.1%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has remained stable at around 62%. Maths has declined from 68% to 62%. Writing has remained stable at around 66%.
Class Sizes
30.4
Avg class size
29.5
Infant (KS1)
31.0
KS2
5
Total classes
2 classes with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
92%
Near capacity
194 pupils
210 capacity
16 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Preston
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Preston
Admissions Demand - Lancashire
Places available
15,664
Applications
12,136
Got 1st preference
93.0%
Got preferred school
98.8%
Primary admissions across Lancashire (2025/26)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.54224%
Overall absence
17.09845%
Persistent absence
193
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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