Morecambe Bay Community Primary School, Morecambe
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 8 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Morecambe Bay Community Primary School creates a warm, caring environment where pupils arrive happy and eager to learn. The school offers a range of enriching experiences including trips, visits, residential stays, and clubs that help children develop confidence and discover their interests. Staff build strong relationships with pupils and deal effectively with bullying when it occurs.
Key Strengths
- Safeguarding is effective with an open, positive culture where staff and pupils feel safe
- Personal development well supported through trips, residential visits, clubs, and learning about different religions and cultures
- Leaders have identified appropriate priorities and introduced new early reading curriculum showing some positive results
Areas for Improvement
- Achievement remains weak - too many pupils, especially disadvantaged pupils, do not learn as well as they should
- Early reading and writing skills are a major concern, with too many children not ready for Year 1
- Teaching quality is inconsistent and does not consistently address gaps in pupils' prior learning
- Attendance is too low, particularly among disadvantaged pupils, with persistent absence remaining high
- Behaviour in lessons is variable with too many pupils becoming distracted
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, concerns are actively identified and managed, and pupils feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Sporting teams, choir, after-school clubs, school representative roles, lunchtime monitor roles, play leader roles
Morecambe Bay Community Primary School has safeguarding standards met and offers good personal development opportunities, but pupils have not achieved well enough over time, with particular concerns about early reading, writing, and mathematics skills.
At a Glance
60.9%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, HI - Hearing Impairment
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has remained stable at around 56%. Maths has declined from 44% to 39%. Writing has declined from 56% to 50%.
Class Sizes
27.3
Avg class size
3
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
80%
Available places
276 pupils
345 capacity
69 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Morecambe
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Morecambe
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
9.6937%
Overall absence
28.82096%
Persistent absence
229
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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