Cawthorne's Endowed School
General Information
- Address: Abbeystead Road, Abbeystead, Lancaster, LA2 9BQ – View on map
- Phone: 01524791565
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Patrick Corbett
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 1 family put it first for 1 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Christian
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 5
- % eligible for free school meals: 14.7%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Lancaster average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 8.6% a year (Lancaster 11.5%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Lancashire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 9 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 3
- Suspensions for bullying: 18 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 7 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Lancashire (the council area this school is in), not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 3.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 20.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 67% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points above the Lancaster average (60%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 79%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 100% · Writing 67% · Maths 100% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 83%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 107
- Based on: 6 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
Year 6 SATs: 16th of 49 junior and primary schools in the area
- =14Nether Kellet Community Primary School69%
- =14Quernmore Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School69%
- #16Cawthorne's Endowed School67%
- #17Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School65%
- =18Lancaster Christ Church Church of England Primary School64%
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7th of 37 primary schools in Lancaster for Ofsted rating
- #5Carnforth Community Primary SchoolGood
- #6Caton Primary SchoolGood
- #7Cawthorne's Endowed SchoolGood
- #8Cockerham Parochial CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #9Dolphinholme Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,897 (2024-25)
10th of 52 primary schools in Lancaster for spending per pupil
- #8Castle View Primary Academy£10,059
- #9Silverdale St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School£9,942
- #10Cawthorne's Endowed School£9,897
- #11Carnforth Community Primary School£9,867
- #12Caton Primary School£9,683
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