Charles Saer Community Primary School, Fleetwood

Ofsted's report card from its 24 February 2026 inspection grades Charles Saer Community Primary School on 7 areas: 3 needs attention and 4 urgent improvement. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Early years - Needs attention. "While the school's routines help children settle well, the early years curriculum does not consistently help children build their knowledge."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Leaders do not ensure that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive consistently effective support."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "Pupils benefit unevenly from the range of experiences the school provides."

Achievement - Urgent improvement. "Pupils, especially disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), do not achieve as well as they should."

Attendance and behaviour - Urgent improvement. "Pupils' rates of attendance are far lower than the average for the whole country."

Curriculum and teaching - Urgent improvement. "Pupils do not experience the curriculum that leaders want them to learn."

Leadership and governance - Urgent improvement. "Leaders and governors have not acted with sufficient urgency to improve the standard of pupils' education."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Governors must provide effective challenge and support to leaders for the quality of education pupils receive, ensuring that they have accurate information that will allow this to happen"; "Leaders must ensure that safeguarding information is recorded in sufficient detail and in a timely way so that their actions and decisions can be reviewed thoroughly"; "Leaders should ensure that the curriculum enables all pupils to build knowledge securely at each key stage"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers implement the planned curriculum consistently, accurately identify gaps in pupils' knowledge and adapt their teaching to meet the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)"; "Leaders should develop and sustain an effective attendance strategy that robustly challenges absence, particularly for the most vulnerable groups of pupils"; "Leaders should ensure that staff apply the behaviour policy consistently so that all pupils experience the calm, orderly environment necessary for them to learn"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers consistently identify and meet the needs of pupils with SEND and those facing other disadvantages, including by ensuring that additional funding is having a positive impact on pupils"; "Leaders should ensure that children in the early years build secure foundations in phonics and reading so that they are well prepared for Year 1".

The school runs after-school care.

In 2025, 41% of Year 6 pupils at Charles Saer Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 38% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 74% in Lancashire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 68% in reading and 46% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 16 families put Charles Saer Community Primary School as their first choice and 43 named it as one of their preferences, for 16 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Charles Saer Community Primary School are Charles Saer Primary Academy (under 0.1 miles); St Wulstan's and St Edmund's Catholic Academy (0.4 miles, 31% reading, 31% maths); Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 48% reading, 60% maths); and Shakespeare Primary School (0.6 miles, Outstanding, 80% reading, 88% maths).

Charles Saer Community Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

22 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Charles Saer Community Primary School (as of April 2026): 59% would recommend the school, 64% say their child is happy there and 71% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (73%); the weakest, that pupils behave well (41%).

48.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 2.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 60 pupils (22.2%) received SEN support and 6 (2.2%) 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 tram or metro stop is Heathfield Road (Blackpool Tramway), about 1180 metres away (roughly a 15-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Golf Club (opposite), 150 metres away.

In 2024/25, Charles Saer Community Primary School issued 4 suspensions, 1.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Charles Saer Community Primary School are Fleetwood High School (0.4 miles); and Cardinal Allen Catholic High School, Fleetwood (0.9 miles).