Community special school

Morecambe Road School

Mixed · ages 3–16Lancashire, North West · Morecambe LA3 3ABSchool website
Pupils on roll
224of 150 places
Free school meals
48.7%
Year 11 cohort 2025
24
Ofsted
School remains Good, 14 June 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 22 pupils who finished Year 11 at Morecambe Road School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 77% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Morecambe Road School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 0.9, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Lancashire and England.

Morecambe Road School
Lancashire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureMorecambe Road SchoolLancashireEngland
Pupils in the cohort2213,296607,348
Any sustained destination86%90%92%
Stayed in education86%81%86%
— school sixth form0%12%34%
— sixth form college0%20%13%
— further education college77%48%37%
— other education9%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%5%3%
Employment0%4%3%
No sustained destination9%7%6%
Destination unknown5%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureMorecambe Road SchoolLancashireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)0.945.146.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%44%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%64%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%34%41%
EBacc average point score0.003.954.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort67%26%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils0.932.734.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils0.849.350.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language0%12%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Fine Art2083%9%0%28%0%

Where Morecambe Road School is

Other secondary schools in Lancashire are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Lancashire’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Lancashire

Academy@Worden

Academy converter · 660 pupils

74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2

Accrington Academy

Academy sponsor led · 953 pupils

79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.4

Albany Academy

Academy converter · 725 pupils

76% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.7

Alder Grange School

Community school · sixth form · 899 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.0

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.