Academy converter · Primary
Blackpool · FY1 6RD · Blackpool
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 138300
Waterloo Primary Academy
Academy converter · Blackpool · FY4 3AG
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
600
Local authority
Blackpool
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 3–11, in Blackpool, Blackpool, 600 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 57.3%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 138300
Location
- Address
- Waterloo Road
- Postcode
- FY4 3AG
- Town
- Blackpool
- County
- Lancashire
- Local authority
- Blackpool
- District
- Blackpool
- Constituency
- Blackpool South
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 600
- Boys / girls
- 303 / 297
- School capacity
- 656
- Capacity fill
- 600 / 656 (91%)
- Free school meals
- 57.3%
- FSM pupils
- 328
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: ZEST ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- ZEST ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Zest Academy Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Jenny Brown
- Telephone
- 01253315370
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-06-09
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 47%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 0%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 100.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0