Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School

About Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School

Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School is a state-funded, mixed primary school in the Lancashire local authority, serving children aged 4 to 11. It sits within a competitive local landscape: among 46 primary schools in the Lancaster area, it ranks 29th, placing it in the bottom half of its immediate peers. The top-performing schools in the same local authority include Crawford Village Primary School, New Longton All Saints CofE Primary School, and St George's Church of England Primary School, Chorley, all of which achieve higher ranking scores. The nearest school rated Outstanding by Ofsted is St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School, Lancaster, located just 1.9 kilometres away. With 387 pupils on roll against a capacity of 420, the school is operating close to full, and 16.5 per cent of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, a figure that gives some indication of the socioeconomic mix of the intake.

In its most recent Ofsted inspection, carried out in June 2022, the school was rated Good across every category: overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This represents a consistent performance, as the school also held a Good rating in its previous inspection in 2013. At Key Stage 2, 59 per cent of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which is just one percentage point below the Lancashire local authority average of 60 per cent. In individual subjects, 71 per cent reached the expected standard in reading and maths, and 79 per cent in writing. At the higher standard, 11 per cent achieved the combined measure, with reading leading at 34 per cent, maths at 32 per cent, and writing at 16 per cent. Average scaled scores were 106 in reading and 105 in maths, both slightly above the national benchmark of 100.

The school offers a range of facilities including an ICT suite, dining hall, gymnasium, sports hall, sensory room, outdoor playground, and a chapel. Sports provision covers football, dance, cricket, and swimming, while extracurricular clubs include choir, eco club, and chess. For families with children who have additional needs, the school lists SEND provisions for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, hearing impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. Admissions for the 2025/26 year show the school is oversubscribed: 98 applications were received for 39 places, with 39 first-preference offers made, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.51. This suggests strong local demand, and families considering the school should be aware that securing a place may require a first-preference application.

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