Mossgate Primary School, Morecambe
Mossgate Primary School is a primary school for pupils aged 4 to 11 in Morecambe. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in January 2015. Ofsted's ungraded inspection in March 2024 did not change this grade. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the highest of the 15 schools in Morecambe with published results, and 1,154th of 14,452 across England. For 2026 entry it had 1.5 first-choice applications for every place. It was 99% full in 2025.
- SATs results
- Above England average
- Ofsted
- Good (2015)
- Demand
- 1.5 first choices per place
- Attendance
- In line with England
Reception applications for September 2027 close in 75 days
Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Lancashire (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.
Data last updated 1 Nov 2026
Mossgate Primary School in detail
Mossgate Primary School in its own words
In its own words: "It is our values that determine our thinking and behaviour. The ethos of our school is built upon our core values of kindness, respect, courtesy, honesty, responsibility and courage. Our six school values are reinforced through our school expectations which all staff refer to these when speaking to children about their behaviour and attitude to learning."
The school runs a breakfast club from 7:30am and after-school care.
Vision and values (school website)Wraparound care (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Results
In 2025, 93% of Year 6 pupils at Mossgate Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 90% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 74% in Lancashire and 77% and 75% across England.
Results rose from 86% in reading and 83% in maths in 2024.
With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.
Getting a place at Mossgate Primary School
For September 2026 entry, 43 families put Mossgate Primary School as their first choice and 135 named it as one of their preferences, for 28 places offered. That is 1.5 first choices for every place. 18 families who put it first were not offered a place there.
Admissions history and your chances at Mossgate Primary School
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Mossgate Primary School are St Patrick's Catholic Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 61% reading, 74% maths); Heysham St Peter's Church of England Primary School (0.6 miles, Good, 85% reading, 79% maths); Morecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 75% reading, 75% maths); and West End Primary School (1 mile, Good, 72% reading, 66% maths).
Mossgate Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 4 of them.
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolHeysham St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolMorecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary SchoolWest End Primary School
Who goes there
5.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Morecambe Rail Station, about 1.5 miles away in a straight line.
14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Mossgate School (opposite), 70 metres away.
The area around the school
Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Mossgate Primary School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.
Suspensions and exclusions
In 2024/25, Mossgate Primary School issued 7 suspensions, 3.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.
Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime; DfE exclusions statistics
Location
Our estimate from how close the nearest similar schools are and how oversubscribed the council's schools are. It is not a published boundary.
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 years agoThis judgement is from January 2015, 11 years ago, longer than Ofsted's usual 4-year cycle: the school may have changed since.
Overall
Latest (ungraded) inspection: The school remains Good.
Ofsted's report, in its own words
What is it like to attend this school?
Everyone receives a warm welcome at Mossgate Primary School. Pupils thrive in the school's calm and nurturing environment. They arrive each morning happy and eager to learn. Children in the early years enjoy trying new activities alongside their friends. They blossom in the inspiring surroundings that staff have created.
Pupils are polite and well mannered. They treat each other with kindness and respect. Pupils know that staff care about them. This helps pupils to feel safe in school. Pupils work hard in lessons. They strive to live up to the school's high expectations for their academic achievement. Most pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), achieve well.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
The curriculum has been carefully designed to enable pupils, including those with SEND, to become successful learners. In the vast majority of subjects, the most important knowledge that pupils need to learn is clearly defined. Subject content is ordered carefully from the early years to Year 6.
The training that staff receive enables them to deliver the agreed curriculum well. In most subjects, staff use assessment information effectively to check what pupils know and remember and to identify gaps in pupils' knowledge. Thoughtfully designed activities give pupils the opportunity to practise what they are learning. This helps pupils to build a secure body of knowledge over time.
From Ofsted's March 2024 ungraded inspection report: the opening paragraphs of each section, quoted word for word. Read the full report Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ofsted Insights
Ofsted rated this school Good at its January 2015 inspection - up from Requires Improvement.
Rated Good for
Leadership & management.
At a Glance
29.1%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2024/25KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 86% to 93% (2024 to 2025). Maths has improved from 83% to 90% (2024 to 2025). Writing has declined from 83% to 70% (2024 to 2025).
Class Sizes
29.5
Avg class size
29.0
Infant (KS1)
29.8
KS2
6
Total classes
2025/26 academic year
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools
Keep up with Mossgate Primary School
Nurseries
The nearest nurseries and pre-schools to Mossgate Primary School, with their latest published grades:
- Mossgate Day Nursery - Day nursery, under 0.1 milesOfsted, 30 January 2025: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Time 4 Nursery - Day nursery, 0.5 milesOfsted, 6 July 2023: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Total Tots Ltd - Day nursery, 0.8 milesOfsted, 13 July 2023: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Butterflies Preschool - Day nursery, 1.2 milesOfsted, 7 October 2022: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Total Tots Ltd - Day nursery, 1.3 milesOfsted, 18 May 2023: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
Term dates
Mossgate Primary School is a community school, so its term dates are set by Lancashire. Training (INSET) days, when pupils are not in school, vary by school: check the school's own calendar.
2026 to 2027
- Autumn term: Tuesday 1 September to Friday 18 December 2026 (half term Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2026)
- Spring term: Monday 4 January to Thursday 25 March 2027 (half term Monday 15 February to Friday 19 February 2027)
- Summer term: Monday 12 April to Wednesday 21 July 2027 (half term Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2027)
2027 to 2028
- Autumn term: Wednesday 1 September to Friday 17 December 2027 (half term Monday 25 October to Friday 29 October 2027)
- Spring term: Tuesday 4 January to Friday 31 March 2028 (half term Monday 14 February to Friday 18 February 2028)
- Summer term: Tuesday 18 April to Friday 21 July 2028 (half term Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2028)
Getting There
Bus Stops
Free school transport
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You apply to the council where you live. Mossgate Primary School is in Lancashire; for families living there:
- Lancashire's school travel policy: school transport policies
- How to apply: Apply for free home to school transport assistance
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 13
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 4
- Children hurt
- 2
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 13 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 9 slight.
2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise.
5 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Lancashire is 12 (the median across 707 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight are DfT estimates (severity adjustment). Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Commute and house prices
Your chances of a place at Mossgate Primary School
Will you get a place at Mossgate Primary School?
For 2026 entry it had 43 first choices for 28 places. The report sets your home postcode against these figures.
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
99%
Near capacity
209 pupils
210 places
1 spare place in 2025
2025, DfE school capacity data
Across Lancashire council
Places available
15,442
Applications
12,122
Got 1st preference
91.3%
Got preferred school
98.3%
All primary applications across Lancashire council (2026/27), not just this school.
This school: 1.5 first choices per place
Future places in the local planning area
DfE estimates the Heysham planning area (Lancashire) will have 73 spare primary places in 2027/28. In the year groups that are short, it estimates 5 additional places needed.
Source: Department for Education, School capacity: Academic year 2024/25 (published 19 March 2026), estimates of future school place demand by planning area. Council pupil forecasts against reported places, counting places councils and DfE plan to add or remove; rounded to whole places. Explore Education Statistics
Inspection History(9)
SEND & SEN Provision
SEN Overview
41
SEN Support
9
EHC Plans
24.3%
of Total Pupils
2026 academic year
Provision & Specialist Facilities
Pupils by Need Type
Pupil Demographics
Ethnicity
2026 academic year
Key Indicators
206
Total Pupils
107
Boys
99
Girls
2026 academic year
Workforce
13
Teachers
15.8:1
Pupil-teacher ratio
£52,444
Mean salary
2026 data
School Funding
£5,713
Per pupil
£1349k
Total funding
£100k
Pupil premium
2025-26 financial year allocations
Pupil Absence2024/25
4.6%
Overall absence
10.9%
Persistent absence
183
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Mossgate Primary School
Questions parents ask about Mossgate Primary School
What are SATs results like at Mossgate Primary School?
Of the pupils at Mossgate Primary School who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 93% reached the expected standard in reading and 90% did so in maths.
What is Mossgate Primary School's Ofsted rating?
Mossgate Primary School's most recent Ofsted inspection, in March 2024, was ungraded. At its last graded inspection, in January 2015, it was rated Good.
Is it hard to get a place at Mossgate Primary School?
Mossgate Primary School was full in 2025, at 100% of its 210 places.
How big are the classes at Mossgate Primary School?
Classes at Mossgate Primary School average 29.5 pupils (2025/26).
How many pupils go to Mossgate Primary School?
Mossgate Primary School has around 206 pupils on roll. 29% are eligible for free school meals.
What is attendance like at Mossgate Primary School?
4.6% of sessions were missed at Mossgate Primary School in 2024/25. 10.9% of pupils were persistently absent.
What are Mossgate Primary School's term dates?
Mossgate Primary School is a community school, so its term dates are set by Lancashire. In 2026 to 2027: Autumn term: Tuesday 1 September to Friday 18 December 2026 (half term Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2026); Spring term: Monday 4 January to Thursday 25 March 2027 (half term Monday 15 February to Friday 19 February 2027); Summer term: Monday 12 April to Wednesday 21 July 2027 (half term Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2027). In 2027 to 2028: Autumn term: Wednesday 1 September to Friday 17 December 2027 (half term Monday 25 October to Friday 29 October 2027); Spring term: Tuesday 4 January to Friday 31 March 2028 (half term Monday 14 February to Friday 18 February 2028); Summer term: Tuesday 18 April to Friday 21 July 2028 (half term Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2028).
How many road collisions happen near Mossgate Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 13 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 4 serious and 9 slight. 2 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on foot and 1 in a vehicle or otherwise. 5 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Lancashire is 12 (the median across 707 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Mossgate Primary School?
Mossgate Primary School is at Kingsway, Heysham, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA3 2EE.
Sources: Lancashire term dates; Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)