Buckshaw Primary School

Ofsted

–No overall grade (2025) — Inspected 2024–2025 — no overall grade under the interim framework

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 13 May 2025, published 22 June 2025. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Usually has places available — 0.89 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• ▲Chorley, the Parish of St Laurence Church of England Primary School 1 km · Good (2020) · previous system
• –Balshaw Lane Community Primary School 1.2 km · No overall grade (2025)
• ▲St Mary's Catholic Primary School and Nursery, Chorley 1.2 km · Most areas: Expected standard (2026)
• ▲St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Chorley 1.6 km · Good (2023) · previous system
• ▲Trinity Church of England/Methodist Primary School, Buckshaw Village 1.8 km · Good (2022) · previous system
• –Gillibrand Primary School 1.8 km · No overall grade (2025)

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.