Morecambe Bay Community Primary School, Morecambe

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

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The school offers many experiences to help all pupils."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils have not achieved well enough over time, including in published outcomes."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Too many pupils do not attend school as often as they should."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "The quality of teaching is inconsistent."

Early years - Needs attention. "Many children in the early years do not learn to read and write as well as they should."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Many pupils with barriers to their learning do not learn as well as they should."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Some of the actions that leaders have taken, while well intentioned and appropriate, have not brought about the improvements that pupils need as quickly as they could."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders should ensure that pupils receive the support they need to catch up quickly so that they learn to read well. • Leaders should ensure that teachers design and set activities that will address gaps in pupils' knowledge so that pupils build their knowledge securely over time. • Leaders should increase the rigour in their procedures to ensure that pupils, particularly disadvantaged pupils, attend school more regularly. • Leaders should ensure that all monitoring activities have a clear focus on evaluating the impact of the school's work, so that this information can be used to celebrate effective practice and to identify quickly further action that needs to be taken".

In 2025, 56% of Year 6 pupils at Morecambe Bay Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 39% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 74% in Lancashire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 59% in reading and 44% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 25 families put Morecambe Bay Community Primary School as their first choice and 65 named it as one of their preferences, for 26 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Morecambe Bay Community Primary School are Poulton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 57% reading, 43% maths); St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Morecambe (0.3 miles, Requires improvement, 57% reading, 65% maths); Lancaster Road Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 57% reading, 67% maths); and Morecambe and Heysham Westgate Primary School (0.8 miles, Requires improvement, 76% reading, 73% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Morecambe Bay Community Primary School.

26 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Morecambe Bay Community Primary School (as of April 2026): 65% would recommend the school, 69% say their child is happy there and 36% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that pupils behave well (81%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (36%).

60.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 52 pupils (18.8%) received SEN support and 32 (11.6%) 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.

Morecambe Bay Community Primary School has a resourced provision and a SEN unit (8 places, 8 pupils on roll) for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, visual impairment, other difficulties or disabilities, hearing impairment, speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, moderate learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties.

The nearest railway station is Morecambe Rail Station, about 600 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Euston Road School, 70 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Morecambe Bay Community Primary 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 317 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, Morecambe Bay Community Primary School issued 20 suspensions, 6.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Morecambe Bay Community Primary School are Morecambe Bay Academy (0.5 miles) and Bay Leadership Academy (1.1 miles).