Blackpool Gateway Academy
Blackpool, FY1 6JH · Blackpool local authority
Blackpool’s School Grade D better than 15% of towns in England
What stands out about Blackpool Gateway Academy
- Its own letter, D−: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 2%)
- 32% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 30 points below England’s schools
- Room to spare: 287 pupils for 420 places
- 69% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (30 of 30)
- Homes in its postcode sector (FY1 6) sold for a median £110,000; Blackpool’s is £140,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 32%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 2% 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 100, maths 99 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 40 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 Gateway Academy?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2024 (1). 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. Fylde Coast Academy Trust 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
100% 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 2025322 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 Gateway Academy’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 June 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, May 2022.
Living near Blackpool Gateway Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in FY1 6, 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 FY1 6 sell for well under 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
16 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Blackpool, FY1 6JH
Blackpool Gateway Academy: common questions
Is Blackpool Gateway Academy a good school?
By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 2% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D−), with 32% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in June 2026.
How hard is it to get into Blackpool Gateway Academy?
For September 2026, 30 families put Blackpool Gateway Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.
What is Blackpool Gateway Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Blackpool Gateway Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, FY1 6, sold for a median £110,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (295 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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