Primary
St James' Church of England Primary School, Clitheroe
Greenacre Street, CLITHEROE, BB7 1ED
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 262 of 315 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.2
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Religious character
- Yes
- Diocese
- Diocese of Blackburn
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.4
- All staff (FTE)
- 18.5
- Pupils per adult
- 15.5
- Pupils
- 287
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2025
Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
51%
11 points below the Clitheroe average (62% across 12 schools)
104.0
1.8 below the Clitheroe average (105.8 across 12 schools)
13th of 14 by our score, among the primary schools in Clitheroe we can score - 16 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 101 |
| Average reading score | 104 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 51% |
| Working at a higher standard | 2% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 44% |
| 23/24 | 55% |
| 24/25 | 51% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 103.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 102.0 |
| 23/24 | 101.0 |
| 24/25 | 101.0 |
Greenacre Street, CLITHEROE, BB7 1ED
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Lancashire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Jonathan Leeming
- Address
- Greenacre Street, CLITHEROE, BB7 1ED
- Telephone
- 01200423599
Other primary schools nearby
- St Michael and St John's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyNot enough data
- Edisford Primary School7.5/10
- Clitheroe Brookside Primary School3.4/10
- Clitheroe Pendle Primary School6.7/10
- Barrow URC Primary School6.8/10
- Waddington and West Bradford Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School5.8/10