Eden Boys' School, Preston
Secondary · Free schools · Boys · Lancashire
Adelaide Street, Preston, PR1 4BD
79
headline score
Ranking (England)
—
No ranked results
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding
No graded inspection
Application demand
84%
1st preference success · Oversubscribed
Attendance
95.7%
9.7% persistently absent
At a glance
Pupils on roll
615
Capacity used
Has space77%
800 places
GCSE rank (England)
—
KS2 rank (England)
—
Application demand
Secondary entry · official council applications and offers
84%
1st preference success rate
109 of 129 families who put it first got an offer
124
Places offered
224
Total applications
1.8
Applications per place
| Preference (Sept 2025 entry) | Applications | Offers | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st preference | 129 | 109 | ● 84% |
| 2nd preference | 60 | 12 | ● 20% |
| 3rd preference | 34 | 3 | ● 9% |
| Later preferences | 1 | 0 | ● 0% |
| Total | 224 | 124 | 55% |
1st preference success by year
Lancashire lets families list 3 preferences. 3 applications came from outside the council area (0 offered). Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Offers are made on each school's admissions criteria (e.g. siblings, distance, faith), so check the school's policy.
Details
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Boys
- Religious character
- Muslim
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Headteacher
- Nafisa Patel
- Address
- Adelaide Street, Preston, PR1 4BD
- Phone
- 01772926000
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Ward / constituency
- Fishwick & Frenchwood · Preston
- Area
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- URN
- 141971
Pupils
| Measure | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free school meals | 26% | — | — |
| English as additional language | 46% | — | — |
| SEN support | 9% | — | — |
Local deprivation (IDACI quintile 4 of 5)
1 = least deprived area, 5 = most deprived. Context only.
Academy trust: STAR ACADEMIES
615 pupils · 800 places. Intake figures describe the school's community — they aren't good or bad.
Ofsted inspections
- 24
16 May 2024
Ungraded inspection
School remains Outstanding
Attendance
2024/2025 school year · 630 pupils
Attendance
95.7%
Share of sessions attended · England 91.1%
Overall absence
4.3%
Sessions missed, any reason · England 8.9%
Persistent absence
9.7%
Pupils missing 10%+ of school · England 26.7%
Severe absence
0.8%
Pupils missing 50%+ of school · England 2.3%
Unauthorised absence
1.6%
Absences the school didn't approve
Persistent absence by year
Source: Department for Education, pupil absence by school (pupils aged 5–15). Lower absence is better. England figures are approximate 2023/24 averages.
GCSE results
| Measure | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 score | 55.6 | — | — |
| Progress 8 score | 0.84 | — | 0.00 |
| Grade 5+ in English & maths | 75% | — | — |
| Grade 4+ in English & maths | 86% | — | — |
| EBacc average point score | 5.05 | — | — |
Progress 8 band
GCSE results over time
Attainment 8 by year (2020 and 2021 exams were cancelled)
| Result | School | England (approx.) |
|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 49.8 | 46 |
| Grade 5+ English & maths | 67.7% | 46% |
| Grade 4+ English & maths | 79% | 65% |
| Entering EBacc | 82.3% | 40% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.52 | 4.1 |
| Pupils in cohort | 124 | — |
How different pupils progress (GCSE, 2023/2024)
Progress 8 by group. 0 is the national average; above 0 means pupils do better than similar children elsewhere.
Oxbridge
No Cambridge applications recorded for this school in 2020–2025.
House prices near the school
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Source: Get Information About Schools and the DfE school and college performance tables (2023-2024); Oxbridge figures from the University of Cambridge's admissions by UCAS apply centre (Oxford doesn't publish per-school figures). Read the method.