Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School
Blackpool, FY4 5DS · Blackpool local authority
Blackpool’s School Grade D better than 15% of towns in England
What stands out about Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School
- Its own letter, A−: Key Stage 2 results better than 79% of England’s primary schools
- 73% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11 points above England’s schools
- 13% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, May 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- 95% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (59 of 62)
- Homes in its postcode sector (FY4 5) sold for a median £220,000; Blackpool’s is £140,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 73%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 79% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Blackpool avg 57%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 18 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School?
95% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (5), 2020 (5), 2022 (3), 2023 (20), 2024 (9), 2025 (24), 2026 (3). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Blackpool council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
95% got their first choice
Blackpool and Blackpool, side by side
2023–2025All 31 graded primaries in Blackpool. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Blackpool’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kincraig Primary School | A+ | 40% | 89% |
| Westcliff Primary Academy | A+ | 24% | 83% |
| Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School | A− | 13% | 73% |
| Blackpool St John's Church of England Primary School | B+ | 53% | 69% |
| Layton Primary School | B | 41% | 67% |
| Anchorsholme Primary Academy | B | 17% | 67% |
| Marton Primary Academy and Nursery | B | 39% | 67% |
| St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School, Blackpool | B | 24% | 65% |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School | B− | 23% | 64% |
| Boundary Primary School | B− | 66% | 62% |
| St Cuthbert's Catholic Academy | B− | 43% | 61% |
| Westminster Primary Academy | C+ | 71% | 59% |
| Waterloo Primary Academy | C+ | 57% | 58% |
| Christ The King Catholic Academy | C+ | 35% | 58% |
| Stanley Primary School | C+ | 26% | 58% |
| Thames Primary Academy | C | 62% | 57% |
| Unity Academy Blackpool | C | 62% | 57% |
| Our Lady of The Assumption Catholic Primary School, Blackpool | C | 17% | 56% |
| St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary School | C | 18% | 56% |
| Bispham Endowed Church of England Primary School | C− | 33% | 53% |
| Roseacre Primary Academy | C− | 44% | 53% |
| Baines' Endowed Church of England Primary Academy | C− | 43% | 51% |
| St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School | C− | 24% | 51% |
| Norbreck Primary Academy | C− | 18% | 48% |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | C− | 25% | 48% |
| Devonshire Primary Academy | D | 67% | 47% |
| Revoe Learning Academy | D | 61% | 47% |
| Mereside Primary Academy | D | 71% | 45% |
| Moor Park Primary School | D− | 38% | 36% |
| Hawes Side Academy | D− | 39% | 35% |
| Blackpool Gateway Academy | D− | 69% | 32% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025415 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting May 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, September 2022.
Living near Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in FY4 5, the school’s postcode sector
Blackpool property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in FY4 5 sell for well over Blackpool’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
11 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Blackpool, FY4 5DS
Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School: common questions
Is Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 79% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A−), with 73% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in May 2026.
How hard is it to get into Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School?
For September 2026, 62 families put Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School first and 59 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.
What is Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (May 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, FY4 5, sold for a median £220,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (331 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Blackpool’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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