United Kingdom / Regions / Preston
Preston
North West, England · population ~144k · 69 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 50 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Preston
69 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 (50 of 69 here), 95.3% 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. A further 3 schools (4.3% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
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 69 schools.
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Fulwood Academy | Secondary | 936 | Good | 06/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Broughton High School | Secondary | 926 | Outstanding | 27/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Our Lady's Catholic High School | Secondary | 902 | Good | 28/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Ashton Community Science College | Secondary | 868 | Good· | 17/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Archbishop Temple Church of England High School | Secondary | 837 | Not graded | 28/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Corpus Christi Catholic High School | Secondary | 807 | Good· | 08/07/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Deepdale Community Primary School | Primary | 699 | Good | 13/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Eden Boys' School, Preston | Secondary | 617 | Outstanding· | 16/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Preston Muslim Girls High School | Secondary | 608 | Outstanding· | 14/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Moor Park High School and Sixth Form | Secondary | 603 | Good | 13/01/2026 | OfstedWebsite |
St Matthew's Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | 456 | Not graded | 14/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen's Drive Primary School | Primary | 437 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Sherwood Primary School | Primary | 427 | Not graded | 29/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ashton-on-Ribble St Andrew's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 420 | Not graded | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Olive School, Preston | Primary | 420 | Not graded | 04/12/2024 | Ofsted |
Christ The King Catholic High School | Secondary | 416 | Inadequate | 28/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School, Preston | Primary | 412 | Good | 28/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Broughton-in-Amounderness Church of England Primary School | Primary | 354 | Not graded | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Frenchwood Community Primary School | Primary | 347 | Requires Improvement | 21/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Stephen's CofE School | Primary | 347 | Good | 15/11/2023 | 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.