St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Primary school in Accrington, Lancashire. Inadequate (Jan 2023). Special measures.
Latest graded inspection
Inspected 25 January 2023, report published 23 March 2023, under the inspection system used from 2019 to 2025.
Special measures. Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern.
This grade was given to St Anne's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School (its Ofsted page), the school this one replaced when it became an academy. St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy hasn’t been inspected under its own name yet, so Ofsted’s page for it shows no grade.
Inadequate overall. The lowest grade. The school had serious problems. 2% of schools whose latest graded inspection was under this system got Inadequate.
| Area | Grade |
|---|---|
| Quality of education | Inadequate |
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement |
| Personal development | Requires improvement |
| Leadership and management | Inadequate |
| Early years | Inadequate |
| Safeguarding effective | Yes |
These grades come from the system Ofsted replaced in November 2025. They stay on record until the school’s next inspection, when it gets a report card instead. More about the old grades.
Next inspection: around January 2027
The last inspection was in January 2023. Schools are usually inspected about every four years. That’s within the next six months.
An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2028 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.
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Report card, Jan 2026: 2 expected, 4 needs attention, 1 urgent improvement Requires significant improvement
Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.