Millfield School

State-maintained in Thornton-Cleveleys, United Kingdom

Head: Nicola Regan, Headteacher
Type: State-maintained, Secondary
Pupils: 873
Local authority: Lancashire
Location: Thornton-Cleveleys, FY5 5DG, United Kingdom
Telephone: 01253865929
Website: millfield.lancs.sch.uk
Government identifier: URN 119714 (register entry)
Ofsted: Good, inspected 12 July 2022

Vacancies (1)

Teacher of Science

Full timeCloses 13 Nov

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Pupils (2025/26) 877 pupils · 47% girls · 21.7% eligible for free school meals · 1.1% with English as an additional language. DfE school census.

Special educational needs (2025/26) 109 (12.4%) on SEN support · 16 (1.8%) with an education, health and care plan. DfE, Special educational needs in England.

Exam results

Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ Eng. & maths
2025/26 provisional	47.5	47.7%
2024/25	48.5	45.1%
2023/24	45.6	38.6%

Department for Education performance tables. Attainment 8 is the average score across eight GCSE-level subjects (out of 90). Grade 5+ is the share of pupils with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Provisional figures can change when the revised tables are published. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26.

Staff

Year	Teachers	Pupils per teacher	Leavers	Average pay
2025/26	57.4	15.3	–	£52,282
2024/25	55.2	15.8	11%	£49,543
2023/24	54.2	16.1	11%	£42,426
2022/23	49.6	17.5	11%	£42,078
2021/22	51.1	17.1	25%	£42,538
2020/21	49.0	17.6	13%	£43,628

Earlier years (2010/11 to 2019/20)

Year	Teachers	Pupils per teacher	Leavers	Average pay
2019/20	49.9	17.1	8%	£44,161
2018/19	53.6	15.8	11%	£42,580
2017/18	49.7	16.8	17%	£40,185
2016/17	53.3	15.3	9%	£38,519
2015/16	52.7	15.5	12%	£39,067
2014/15	51.4	15.7	10%	£36,983
2013/14	50.0	15.2	11%	£36,574
2012/13	47.0	15.4	11%	£36,582
2011/12	41.5	16.3	14%	£37,305
2010/11	39.9	15.3	10%	£37,674

Department for Education, School Workforce Census. Teachers are full-time equivalent. "Leavers" is the share of teachers who moved to another state school or left state schools by the following November, so the latest year has none yet. Vacancies are posts vacant or filled temporarily on census day in November. Average pay is for all teachers, leaders included.

Attendance

Year	Sessions missed	Unauthorised	Persistently absent	Severely absent
2025/26	6.9%	2.1%	18.4%	2.5%
2024/25	6.7%	2.1%	17.8%	2.7%
2023/24	7.4%	2.2%	21.6%	3.2%
2022/23	6.8%	1.7%	19.1%	2.7%
2021/22	7.8%	1.5%	24.7%	2.0%
2020/21	4.3%	0.5%	10.1%	1.4%

Earlier years (2016/17 to 2018/19)

Year	Sessions missed	Unauthorised	Persistently absent	Severely absent
2018/19	5.6%	1.0%	16.1%	2.5%
2017/18	5.3%	0.9%	14.1%	0.9%
2016/17	4.3%	0.6%	9.4%	0.4%

Department for Education, pupil absence statistics, autumn and spring terms of each year so years compare. Persistently absent: share of pupils who missed 10% or more of sessions. Severely absent: share who missed half or more. There are no figures for 2019/20 (school closures).

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Sources

Register details and head: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools. Inspection: Ofsted. Results: Department for Education performance tables. Vacancies: public job services and the school's own website, checked continuously. Nothing here is estimated.

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