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St Teresa's Catholic Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11AcademyRoman Catholic

Blackpool, FY5 3JW · Blackpool local authority

Blackpool’s School Grade D better than 15% of towns in England

Its letter
15%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
21/21
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
215 pupils
91% of its 236 places
Free school meals
25%
25 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Teresa's Catholic Primary School

  • Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 15% of England’s primary schools
  • 48% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14 points below England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Inspected, April 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (21 of 21)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (FY5 3) sold for a median £164,362; Blackpool’s is £140,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 48%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 14% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Blackpool avg 57%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%St Teresa's Catholic Primary 48%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 102, maths 99 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading57%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)60%
England’s schools 73%
Maths49%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling40%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 12 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
33%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
48%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three3%
England’s schools 8% · Blackpool 4% · 2025

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Teresa's Catholic Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

21
families put it first for September 2026
22
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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 Blessed Edward Bamber Catholic Multi Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Blackpool council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Blackpool, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.41 per place
68% got their first choice
1.17 per place
86% got their first choice
1.12 per place
87% got their first choice
1.10 per place
84% got their first choice
1.07 per place
90% got their first choice
1.07 per place
88% got their first choice
1.06 per place
92% got their first choice
1.03 per place
95% got their first choice
1.03 per place
94% got their first choice
St Teresa's Catholic Primary
0.95 per place
100% got their first choice

Blackpool and Blackpool, side by side

2023–2025

All 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.

30%41%52%63%74%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →St Teresa's Catholic
ABCDElsewhere in BlackpoolSt Teresa's Catholic Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Kincraig Primary SchoolA+40%89%
Westcliff Primary AcademyA+24%83%
Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary SchoolA−13%73%
Blackpool St John's Church of England Primary SchoolB+53%69%
Layton Primary SchoolB41%67%
Anchorsholme Primary AcademyB17%67%
Marton Primary Academy and NurseryB39%67%
St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School, BlackpoolB24%65%
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolB−23%64%
Boundary Primary SchoolB−66%62%
St Cuthbert's Catholic AcademyB−43%61%
Westminster Primary AcademyC+71%59%
Waterloo Primary AcademyC+57%58%
Christ The King Catholic AcademyC+35%58%
Stanley Primary SchoolC+26%58%
Thames Primary AcademyC62%57%
Unity Academy BlackpoolC62%57%
Our Lady of The Assumption Catholic Primary School, BlackpoolC17%56%
St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary SchoolC18%56%
Bispham Endowed Church of England Primary SchoolC−33%53%
Roseacre Primary AcademyC−44%53%
Baines' Endowed Church of England Primary AcademyC−43%51%
St Kentigern's Catholic Primary SchoolC−24%51%
Norbreck Primary AcademyC−18%48%
St Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolC−25%48%
Devonshire Primary AcademyD67%47%
Revoe Learning AcademyD61%47%
Mereside Primary AcademyD71%45%
Moor Park Primary SchoolD−38%36%
Hawes Side AcademyD−39%35%
Blackpool Gateway AcademyD−69%32%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

232 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.

SEN support
12.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
4.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
26.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

St Teresa's Catholic Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C−Better than 15% of 15,230 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, April 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Teresa's Catholic Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in FY5 3, the school’s postcode sector

Blackpool property prices →
£164,362
median sale, 702 sales in 36 months · Blackpool £140,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025FY5 3Blackpool
FY5 3Blackpool

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£275K
Semi-detached
£160K
Terraced
£136K
Flat
£85K
FY5 3Blackpool

Homes in FY5 3 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

12 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−DB−C+BA+A+CC−BC+CC−St Teresa's Catholic Primar…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Blackpool, FY5 3JW

St Teresa's Catholic Primary School: common questions

Is St Teresa's Catholic Primary School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 15% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C−), with 48% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, April 2025.

How hard is it to get into St Teresa's Catholic Primary School?

For September 2026, 21 families put St Teresa's Catholic Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 22 places were offered in all.

What is St Teresa's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (April 2025).

How much do houses cost near St Teresa's Catholic Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, FY5 3, sold for a median £164,362 over the 36 months to August 2026 (702 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.