Charles Saer Community Primary School
Grange Road, Fleetwood, FY7 8DD
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mrs Helen Willott
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Constituency
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 351
- Pupils on roll
- 270
- URN
- 119277
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01253874787
About this school
Charles Saer Community Primary School is a community primary school in Fleetwood. It teaches children aged 3 to 11 and has 270 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. Each area of the school's work is graded on a five-point scale, and safeguarding is judged separately.
- Inclusion
- Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
- Early years
- Needs attention
- Safeguarding
- Met
Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern: special measures.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 45 | 41 | 39 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 24% | 41% | 28% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Expected standard in reading | 51% | 68% | 41% |
| Expected standard in maths | 51% | 46% | 38% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 51% | 51% | 26% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 100.0 | 102.0 | 99.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 99.0 | 99.0 | 98.0 |
| Reading progress | -2.60 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -4.40 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -2.90 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Charles Saer Community Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Lancashire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 24% | 58.3% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 41% | 58.3% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 28% | 58.8% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 7.9% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 7.9% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 8% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 320 |
| 2023/24 | 311 |
| 2024/25 | 282 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Charles Saer Community Primary School compares
Charles Saer Community Primary School ranked 426th of 445 primary schools in Lancashire for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 6% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 16% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 28% | 8% | 53.8% | 270 | — |
| St Wulstan's and St Edmund's Catholic Academy | 18% | 6.8% | 41.8% | 203 | 0.4 miles |
| Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School | 37% | 7.1% | 55.5% | 421 | 0.6 miles |
| Shakespeare Primary School | 73% | 5% | 33.5% | 418 | 0.6 miles |
| Larkholme Primary School | 63% | 5.1% | 32.4% | 276 | 0.9 miles |
| Fleetwood Chaucer Community Primary School | 21% | 8.7% | 71% | 239 | 1.1 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
Inspection history
-
Graded inspection report24 February 2026
- 13 July 2023
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 53.82%
- English as an additional language
- 1.8%
- Overall absence
- 8.04%
- Persistent absence
- 30.45%
Location
Nearby schools
-
St Wulstan's and St Edmund's Catholic Academy0.4 miles
Primary · Fleetwood
-
Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School0.6 miles
Primary · Fleetwood
-
Shakespeare Primary School0.6 miles
Primary · Fleetwood
-
Larkholme Primary School0.9 miles
Primary · Fleetwood
-
Fleetwood Chaucer Community Primary School1.1 miles
Primary · Fleetwood
Other schools in Fleetwood
Charles Saer Community Primary School ranks 4th of the 6 ranked primary schools in Fleetwood.
- Fleetwood Chaucer Community Primary School Primary
- Fleetwood Flakefleet Primary School Primary
- Larkholme Primary School Primary
- Shakespeare Primary School Primary
- St Wulstan's and St Edmund's Catholic Academy Primary
- St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, Fleetwood Primary
- Cardinal Allen Catholic High School, Fleetwood Secondary
- Fleetwood High School Secondary
- Rossall School Independent schools
Common questions
- What year groups does Charles Saer Community Primary School teach?
- Charles Saer Community Primary School teaches children aged 3 to 11. It is a primary school in Fleetwood.
- Who is the headteacher of Charles Saer Community Primary School?
- The headteacher of Charles Saer Community Primary School is Mrs Helen Willott, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Charles Saer Community Primary School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Charles Saer Community Primary School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Charles Saer Community Primary School?
- Charles Saer Community Primary School has 270 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 11.
- Is Charles Saer Community Primary School full?
- Charles Saer Community Primary School has capacity for 351 pupils and 270 on roll (77%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Charles Saer Community Primary School a faith school?
- No. Charles Saer Community Primary School has no designated religious character.
- Does Charles Saer Community Primary School have a nursery?
- Yes. The schools register records Charles Saer Community Primary School as having nursery classes.
- How have Charles Saer Community Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 24% in 2022/23 and 28% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Charles Saer Community Primary School rank locally?
- Charles Saer Community Primary School ranked 426th of 445 primary schools in Lancashire for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 6% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 16% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Charles Saer Community Primary School's absence rate?
- Charles Saer Community Primary School's overall absence rate is 8% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Charles Saer Community Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Charles Saer Community Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 June 2026.