Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School

Primary Maintained Preston 📅 Term dates 2025–2026 🏅 Ofsted: Good 📊 KS2 expected standard: 59%

Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School is a mixed local-authority maintained primary school in Preston, Lancashire County Council, teaching 446 pupils aged 3 to 11. Its last Ofsted inspection in March 2024 found the school remains Good. In 2024–2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 3 September 2025 to 17 July 2026.

Ofsted inspection

The latest published Ofsted judgement for Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School.

Latest inspection
Good Ungraded inspection
Outcome: School remains Good. Ungraded (short) inspections confirm whether standards are maintained since the last full graded inspection — they don’t assign new category grades.
Ungraded inspection · Inspected 27 Mar 2024 · Published 15 May 2024
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Term dates & holidays 2025–2026

Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School.

Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School term dates calendar 2025–2026
Official term-dates calendar · 2025–2026 · source

Interactive Calendar

September 2025
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
  • 1 INSET Day
  • 2 INSET Day
  • 3 Autumn Term Starts
October 2025
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 27–31 Autumn Half Term
November 2025
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
  • 28 INSET Day (disaggregated)
December 2025
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 19 Autumn Term Ends
  • 22–31 Christmas Holiday
  • 25 Christmas Day
  • 26 Boxing Day
January 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–2 Christmas Holiday
  • 1 New Year's Day
  • 5 INSET Day
  • 6 Spring Term Starts
February 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
  • 16–20 Spring Half Term
March 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 27 Spring Term Ends
  • 30–31 Easter Holiday
April 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
  • 1–10 Easter Holiday
  • 3 Good Friday
  • 6 Easter Monday
  • 13 Summer Term Starts
May 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 4 May Day Bank Holiday
  • 4 Early May Bank Holiday
  • 25–29 Summer Half Term
  • 25 Spring Bank Holiday
June 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 3 INSET Day
  • 17 Summer Term Ends
  • 18–31 Summer Holiday
  • 20 INSET Day (disaggregated)
August 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  • 1–31 Summer Holiday
  • 31 Summer Bank Holiday

Key dates (2025–2026)

  • INSET Day September 1, 2025 Inset Day
  • INSET Day September 2, 2025 Inset Day
  • Autumn Term Starts September 3, 2025 Term
  • Autumn Half Term October 27-31, 2025 Holiday
  • INSET Day (disaggregated) November 28, 2025 Inset Day
  • Autumn Term Ends December 19, 2025 Term
  • INSET Day January 5, 2026 Inset Day
  • Spring Term Starts January 6, 2026 Term
  • Spring Half Term February 16-20, 2026 Holiday
  • Spring Term Ends March 27, 2026 Term
  • Summer Term Starts April 13, 2026 Term
  • May Day Bank Holiday May 4, 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Half Term May 25-29, 2026 Holiday
  • INSET Day July 3, 2026 Inset Day
  • Summer Term Ends July 17, 2026 Term
  • INSET Day (disaggregated) July 20, 2026 Inset Day
  • Christmas Holiday December 22, 2025 - January 2, 2026 Holiday
  • Easter Holiday March 30, 2026 - April 10, 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Holiday July 18, 2026 - August 31, 2026 Holiday
  • New Year's Day January 1, 2026 Event
  • Good Friday April 3, 2026 Event
  • Easter Monday April 6, 2026 Holiday
  • Early May Bank Holiday May 4, 2026 Holiday
  • Spring Bank Holiday May 25, 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Bank Holiday August 31, 2026 Holiday
  • Christmas Day December 25, 2025 Holiday
  • Boxing Day December 26, 2025 Event

Exam results & performance

DfE performance tables Official results, 2024–2025 GOV.UK ↗
59% Expected standard at KS2 England 62%
7.7% Persistent absence England 17.8% Top 19%

The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School with Lancashire County Council and England.

Key stage 2 (end of primary) 59% Expected standard in reading, writing & maths

How Year 6 pupils did in the national tests.

This school Lancashire County Council England

Expected standard in reading, writing & maths · The headline primary measure 59%
Lancashire County Council 60% England 62% -3 vs England
Average reading scaled score · 100 = expected standard 106
Lancashire County Council 105 England 106 in line with England
Average maths scaled score · 100 = expected standard 104
Lancashire County Council 104 England 105 in line with England
Pupils in the year group · Small cohorts swing wildly 61
Attendance 7.7% Persistently absent pupils

Absence across the whole school year.

This school Lancashire County Council England

Persistently absent pupils · Missed 10%+ of sessions; lower is better 7.7%
Lancashire County Council 17.1% England 17.8% -10.1 vs England
Overall absence · Lower is better 3.5%
Lancashire County Council 6.5% England 6.8% -3.2 vs England
About this data source & caveats

Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.

We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.

Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.

Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Location & catchment area

Indicative catchment Other primary schools

Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School than to any other primary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.