Primary
St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, Walton-le-Dale
Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-Dale, Preston, PR5 4HD
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 199 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Religious character
- Yes
- Diocese
- Diocese of Salford
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 16.1
- Pupils per adult
- 11.0
- Pupils
- 177
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 February 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
SafeguardingMet
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
53%
10 points below the Preston average (63% across 104 schools)
103.0
2.4 below the Preston average (105.4 across 104 schools)
61st of 105 by our score, among the primary schools in Preston we can score - 124 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 | 102 |
| Average reading score | 103 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 53% |
| Working at a higher standard | 10% |
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 | 58% |
| 23/24 | 53% |
| 24/25 | 53% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 106.0 |
| 23/24 | 107.0 |
| 24/25 | 103.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 104.0 |
| 23/24 | 105.0 |
| 24/25 | 102.0 |
Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-Dale, Preston, PR5 4HD
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
- Liz Hindley
- Address
- Higher Walton Road, Walton-le-Dale, Preston, PR5 4HD
- Telephone
- 01772555436
Other primary schools nearby
- Walton-le-Dale, St Leonard's Church of England Primary School5.0/10
- Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School6.1/10
- Bamber Bridge St Aidan's Church of England Primary School4.1/10
- St Mary's and St Benedict's Roman Catholic Primary School5.3/10
- Higher Walton Church of England Primary School4.6/10
- Frenchwood Community Primary School2.9/10