A PRIMARY school found to be failing is now making "satisfactory progress", according to inspectors.

Intack Primary School, Blackburn, was put in special measures in March 2006 for the second time.

Following an inspection in March, an Ofsted report says the school has made satisfactory progress since its last inspection in November 2006.

Once the Whitebirk Road school was put into special measures an action plan to head off the threat of closure and remove the tag given to failing schools was produced.

After Easter the school, which first came out of special measures in 1998, drafted in head Linda McLanachan who pledged everyone at Intack would "work together" to shake-off the unwanted label.

This latest inspection found there had been improvements since the last visit in November 2006.

It has progressed in raising the standards and had done better in literacy and numeracy and 72 per cent of pupils achieved the Key Stage 2 national average in science. Mathematics results had also improved but only 48 per cent of pupils were achieving the expected levels in English.

Other satisfactory progress was made in attendance levels and the improvements in the quality of teaching.

But inadequate progress was recorded for work set to meet the needs of pupils.

Inspectors said in their report that "senior leaders and subject co-ordinators should focus precisely on the extent which teachers are addressing weaknesses through the school's own analysis of pupils' performance and from inspection findings' when they monitor and evaluate staff".