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Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School

PrimaryAges 5–11Voluntary aidedChurch of England

near Overton, LA2 0AR · Lancashire local authority

Overton’s School Grade D better than 12% of towns in England

Getting in
1/1
first choices offered a place, 2024 (England: 93%)
How full
12 pupils
29% of its 42 places
Free school meals
8%
8 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 12 pupils for 42 places
  • 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, March 2026: achievement urgent improvement, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Outside any built-up area: listed with Overton, the nearest town
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2024 (1 of 1)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (LA2 0) sold for a median £237,500; Overton’s is £223,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2024.

1
families put it first for September 2024
1
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 school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Lancashire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2024

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.03 per place
90% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, CofE Primary
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice
0.79 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

10 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
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
10%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
30%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
0%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 40%Boys 60%
Its letter

No letter for Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School

No published results for this school: a new school, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Report card, inspection starting March 2026. Special measures

SafeguardingMet
AchievementUrgent improvement
Curriculum and teachingUrgent improvement
InclusionUrgent improvement
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingNeeds attention
Leadership and governanceUrgent improvement

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, June 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), January 2020.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School

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

Home prices in LA2 0, the school’s postcode sector

Overton property prices →
£237,500
median sale, 178 sales in 36 months · Overton £223,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025LA2 0Overton
LA2 0Overton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£395K
Semi-detached
£222K
Terraced
£153K
LA2 0Overton

Homes in LA2 0 sell for a little over Overton’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

1 state school
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−Thurnham Glasson Christ Chu…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

near Overton, LA2 0AR

Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School?

For September 2024, 1 families put Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 1 places were offered in all.

What is Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (March 2026) gave a report card: achievement urgent improvement, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Thurnham Glasson Christ Church, Church of England Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, LA2 0, sold for a median £237,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (178 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; Overton’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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