Balshaw Lane Community Primary School
State-Funded School
Not published
No overall grade
About the School
Balshaw Lane Community Primary School is a state-funded primary for pupils aged 4–11, located in Lancashire, North West.
It currently serves 382 pupils. Balshaw Lane Community Primary School is part of ASPIRATIONAL FUTURES MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST.
Ofsted Rating
Yes
2025
Subject Areas
Leadership &management
Good
Quality ofeducation
Good
Personaldevelopment
Outstanding
Behaviour &attitudes
Good
Early yearsprovision
Good
Academic Performance
No DfE attainment data is published for this school — usually because the cohort is too small to report without identifying pupils.
Ethnicity
Pupils
Total Pupils
53%Boys
47%GirlsPupil Characteristics
DfE school census, January 2026.
Key Information
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4 – 11
- Deprivation band
- Less deprived
- Total pupils
- 382
- IDACI quintile
- 2 (More deprived)
- MAT name
- ASPIRATIONAL FUTURES MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
Inspection history
2 graded inspections published by Ofsted. Ungraded and monitoring visits are not shown.
| Report published | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2025 | Good | Good | Outstanding | Good | Not judged |
| 23 Nov 2011 | Outstanding | Not reported in this inspection | Not reported in this inspection | Not reported in this inspection | Outstanding |
A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.
Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.
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