Fleetwood High School, FLEETWOOD

Ofsted's report card from its 7 July 2026 inspection grades Fleetwood High School on 6 areas: 5 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have a deep and detailed knowledge of the patterns in pupils' attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders use up-to-date research to help them to choose which approaches to the curriculum and to teaching best meet the needs of their pupils."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff assess pupils' needs quickly and effectively during their transition from primary school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, including governors, have an accurate and detailed view of the strengths of their school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a comprehensive personal, social, health and economic education curriculum."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Gaps in pupils' ability to read fluently, write skilfully and use numbers confidently are not closing as quickly as they should be."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that the strategies that they use to close gaps in pupils' foundational knowledge of reading, writing and numeracy are having a rapid impact, including for pupils who join the school later in their education"; "Leaders should ensure that the strategies that they are using to further improve attendance for all pupils are effective in closing the gap between current attendance and the national average attendance for all pupils"; "Leaders should ensure that the strategies that they are using to secure consistently effective teaching across the curriculum are embedded in order to further improve pupils' achievement".

In 2026, pupils at Fleetwood High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 37, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.2 in Lancashire and 47 across England.

29% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 44% in Lancashire and 47% in England.

That is up from 35.8 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.57: pupils made well below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 30.5, against 43.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 13.2 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 19 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Art and Design.

For September 2026 entry, 201 families put Fleetwood High School as their first choice and 329 named it as one of their preferences, for 213 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 7 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Fleetwood High School are Cardinal Allen Catholic High School, Fleetwood (0.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 46); Saint Aidan's Church of England High School (2.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 43.4); Millfield School (3.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.5); and Montgomery Academy (3.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 40.9).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than Fleetwood High School.

Fleetwood High School is run by its own single-school academy trust.

Of the 191 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 75% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 50% to a further education college, 3% to an apprenticeship and 6% into work.

50.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 1.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 131 pupils (12.8%) received SEN support and 23 (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 a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

Fleetwood High School had 76 teachers in 2026, one for every 13 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical secondary school, at about one for every 17.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Heathfield Road (Blackpool Tramway), about 550 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Health Centre (outside), 60 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Fleetwood High School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 171 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other crime. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Lancashire (109), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Fleetwood High School issued 191 suspensions, 19 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Fleetwood High School are Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School (0.2 miles), Charles Saer Community Primary School (0.4 miles), St Wulstan's and St Edmund's Catholic Academy (0.4 miles) and Larkholme Primary School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.