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Secondary school in Preston, Lancashire

Moor Park High School and Sixth Form

Moor Park Avenue, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 6DT

Sixth form
School website 01772795428

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 13 January 2026.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

39.3 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

31% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

47% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

27% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.19confidence interval -0.48 to 0.10

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C
Average points per entry
30.9

England average 32.3

A level students
18

Pupils

Pupils on roll
599
Places
636
How full
94% full — 599 of 636 places taken
Girls / boys
271 / 328
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
16%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
47%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
23%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
11%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
82%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
73%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
11%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
109

After sixth form

Went to university
35%

England 50%

In education, work or training
75%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
20

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

11% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
56%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
27

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Preston 011D, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
27%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
26%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
52%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
37%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
39%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Foundation school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Uzma Ishtiaq
Local authority
Lancashire
Ward
Deepdale
Constituency
Preston
URN
119773

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Preston Muslim Girls High SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2022 56.2 0.4 mi
Abrar AcademyOther independent school No grade 0.5 mi
Eden Boys' School, PrestonFree schools Outstanding 2024 49.8 0.8 mi
Archbishop Temple Church of England High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 55.4 0.9 mi
Corpus Christi Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 50.2 1.2 mi
Christ The King Catholic High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Inadequate 2022 35.9 1.4 mi
Our Lady's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 50 1.5 mi
Fulwood AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.4 1.6 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Sidney Stringer AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 40.1
King Edward VI Sheldon Heath AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 47.4
The Brittons AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 39.5
Heath ParkAcademy converter No grade 49.3
Yardleys SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 46.7
Bournville SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 36.5
Queen Katharine AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.5
Greenfield AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2019 35.7

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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