Hesketh-With-Becconsall All Saints CofE School
General Information
- Address: Shore Road, Hesketh Bank, Preston, PR4 6RD – View on map
- Phone: 01772812630
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Rachael Ainsworth
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 22 families put it first for 24 places – 9 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: 2024 8 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 23
- % eligible for free school meals: 12.9%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the West Lancashire average)
- English as an additional language: 6% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 5.1% a year (West Lancashire 13.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 100% moved to another school, 0% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, 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: 4.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 12.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Inadequate 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 35% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 30 percentage points below the West Lancashire average (65%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 59% · Writing 71% · Maths 59% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 65%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 101
- Based on: 17 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: 48th of 52 junior and primary schools in the area
- =46Ormskirk Asmall Primary School38%
- =46St Edmund's Catholic Primary School38%
- #48Hesketh-With-Becconsall All Saints CofE School35%
- #49Little Digmoor Primary School32%
- #50Holmeswood Methodist School29%
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41st of 41 primary schools in West Lancashire for Ofsted rating
- #39Wrightington Mossy Lea Primary SchoolGood
- #40Woodland Community Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #41Hesketh-With-Becconsall All Saints CofE SchoolInadequate
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,124 (2024-25)
52nd of 55 primary schools in West Lancashire for spending per pupil
- #50Burscough Lordsgate Township Church of England Primary School£6,208
- #51Halsall St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School£6,194
- #52Hesketh-With-Becconsall All Saints CofE School£6,124
- #53St James' Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale£6,078
- #54Aughton Town Green Primary School£5,851
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