St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School, Blackpool

About St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School, Blackpool

St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School sits within Blackpool local authority, one of 30 primary schools in the area. It ranks among the stronger performers locally, though it sits behind the top three peers identified in the local context: Kincraig Primary School, Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School, and Westcliff Primary Academy. The school is a Roman Catholic state primary for mixed genders aged 3 to 11, with a nursery provision attached. It is notably oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, the school received 131 applications for 60 total places, with 75 of those being first-preference applications and 60 first-preference offers made. That works out at an oversubscription ratio of 2.18, meaning more than two families applied for every place. The school's headteacher is Clare Evans, and it currently educates 458 pupils, slightly above its official capacity of 446. Just over a fifth of pupils (22.8%) are eligible for free school meals, which is a useful benchmark for the school's intake.

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