Joshua Mangas
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St Ignatius' Catholic Primary School, Preston

  • Primary
  • Academy converter
  • Ages 4 to 11
  • Roman Catholic

URN 151562 · Lancashire · MATER ECCLESIAE CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST

In Lancashire

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

25 May 2022

Overall effectiveness
Good

Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Early years provision
Outstanding
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1

Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Teachers

Against Lancashire and England, primary schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

19.3

Lancashire
21.3
England
21.2

1.9 lower than England.

Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.

Teacher sickness absence

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Lancashire
5.9 days
England
5.0 days

Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.

Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Pupils on roll
193
Capacity
189
Type
Academy converter
Phase
Primary
Age range
4 to 11
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Trust
MATER ECCLESIAE CATHOLIC MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
Opened
1 May 2025
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Preston
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 2 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: St Ignatius Square, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 1TT

Website: www.saint-ignatius.com

Telephone: 01772555252

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Sources and corrections

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