United Kingdom / Regions / Lancaster
Lancaster
North West, England · population ~148k · 66 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 58 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Lancaster
66 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (58 of 66 here), 89.5% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 66 schools.
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Ripley St Thomas Church of England Academy | Secondary | 1,733 | Outstanding | 14/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Lancaster Royal Grammar School | Secondary | 1,290 | Good | 19/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Morecambe Bay Academy | Secondary | 1,019 | Good | 20/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Our Lady's Catholic College | Secondary | 999 | Requires Improvement | 26/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Lancaster Girls' Grammar School | Secondary | 997 | Good | 21/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bay Leadership Academy | Secondary | 724 | Good | 12/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Carnforth High School | Secondary | 685 | Good· | 09/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Moorside Primary School | Primary | 592 | Good· | 14/12/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lancaster High School | Secondary | 591 | Good | 26/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lancaster Road Primary School | Primary | 519 | Good· | 10/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Morecambe and Heysham Westgate Primary School | Primary | 518 | Requires Improvement | 21/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Bowerham Primary & Nursery School | Primary | 478 | Good | 21/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Morecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary School | Primary | 440 | Good· | 06/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Morecambe and Heysham Torrisholme Community Primary School | Primary | 410 | Outstanding· | 08/07/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Great Wood Primary School | Primary | 410 | Good· | 04/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School | Primary | 387 | Good | 21/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Lancaster Ryelands Primary School | Primary | 386 | Good | 23/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Trumacar Nursery and Community Primary School | Primary | 334 | Good | 04/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Morecambe and Heysham Grosvenor Park Primary School | Primary | 314 | Good· | 14/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Bolton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School | Primary | 296 | Good | 19/07/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.