Thornton Cleveleys Manor Beach Primary School
General Information
- Address: Manor Drive, Thornton-Cleveleys, FY5 1EU – View on map
- Phone: 01253853879
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Ben Burgess
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 13 families put it first for 15 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 15 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 8 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 78
- % eligible for free school meals: 59.5%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (more mixed than the Wyre average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 20.8% a year (Wyre 13.4%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 40% moved to another school, 60% 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: 7.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 23.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Vision impairment: 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: 57% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points below the Wyre average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 58% against an expected 57%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 58%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 86% · Writing 62% · Maths 76% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 71%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 104
- Based on: 21 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 24th of 36 junior and primary schools in the area
- #22Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Thornton Cleveleys60%
- #23Northfold Community Primary School59%
- #24Thornton Cleveleys Manor Beach Primary School57%
- #25Stalmine Primary School56%
- #26Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled Primary School52%
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25th of 28 primary schools in Wyre for Ofsted rating
- #23Stanah Primary SchoolGood
- #24Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #25Thornton Cleveleys Manor Beach Primary SchoolGood
- #26Thornton Cleveleys Royles Brook Primary SchoolGood
- #27Thornton Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £10,993 (2024-25)
3rd of 40 primary schools in Wyre for spending per pupil
- #1Winmarleigh Church of England Primary School£19,615
- #2Calder Vale St John Church of England Primary School£17,828
- #3Thornton Cleveleys Manor Beach Primary School£10,993
- #4St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Claughton-on-Brock£10,341
- #5St William's Catholic Primary School, Pilling£10,067
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