St Bernard's Catholic Primary School, Preston

About St Bernard's Catholic Primary School, Preston

St Bernard's Catholic Primary School in Preston was rated Good in its most recent Ofsted inspection, a notable improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating. The school’s most telling academic metric comes from the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, where 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure sits three percentage points above the Lancashire local authority average of 60%, placing the school in the middle of the pack locally — 20th out of 45 primary schools in Preston, and ranked within the top half nationally. The school’s strongest individual subject was maths, where 90% of pupils reached the expected standard and 37% achieved the higher standard, with an average scaled score of 107. Reading and writing both saw 73% of pupils meeting expectations, though higher-standard attainment was lower in writing at just 7%. The school’s overall ranking score of 63 places it in the bottom 50% nationally, but the data shows solid, above-average core outcomes for a Catholic primary in Lancashire.

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