Sabden Primary School, Sabden
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 7 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Sabden Primary School excels at creating a safe, calm and respectful environment where pupils feel genuinely cared for and supported. The school has excellent attendance rates and a strong commitment to including all pupils, particularly those with additional needs or disadvantages. Leaders are actively working to improve the school following recent changes, with a clear focus on developing staff expertise and raising standards in key areas like mathematics.
Key Strengths
- High attendance rates that compare very favourably with national figures, with consistent attendance across all pupil groups
- Positive behaviour across the school with a calm, orderly and respectful environment where pupils feel safe and well supported
- Strong safeguarding culture where leaders and staff take responsibility for keeping pupils safe
- Effective personal development and wellbeing programme with broad enrichment activities and clubs
- Well-established inclusive practices enabling pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils to access the curriculum
Areas for Improvement
- Mathematics progress has remained below national averages for several years, though early signs of improvement are emerging
- Inconsistent teaching quality and subject knowledge development, with limited focus on connecting new learning to prior knowledge
- Handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar remain inconsistent across the school and are not improving quickly enough
- Inconsistent approaches to adapting learning for pupils with SEND, with some adaptations being too general
- Limited embedding of recent curriculum training and staff development initiatives
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders and governors have fulfilled their responsibilities, established an open safeguarding culture, and pupils are made safer and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Enrichment activities and clubs, community fundraising projects (Tanzania library fundraising), fire-safety workshops, bicycle riding skills, leadership roles, cultural and creative experiences, dream big career awareness programme
Sabden Primary School is a school that has recently undergone organisational change and is working to stabilise and improve. Leaders have prioritised key areas including curriculum development, SEND practice, attendance and mathematics outcomes.
At a Glance
8.9%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 89% to 75%. Maths has declined from 100% to 67%. Writing has declined from 100% to 83%.
Class Sizes
24.5
Avg class size
4
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
96%
Near capacity
101 pupils
105 capacity
4 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Sabden
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Sabden
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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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
3.40763%
Overall absence
1.26582%
Persistent absence
79
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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