This school

URN 147592 · LAESTAB 888/2008 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).

Against North West and Lancashire

Track: North West's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = North West median; L = Lancashire median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.

North West state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).

Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the North West median, red = in North West's worst 10%.

Money: Compared only with academies' accounts (AAR), same academic year.

Results

England rank: Key stage 2: % of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; ties broken by % at the higher standard. Ranked among 15,057 primaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.

Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).

Against North West: North West state primaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against North West (10 = top 10%).

Pupils counted: 27 pupils (2024/25), every measure.

KS2 progress (reading), KS2 progress (writing), KS2 progress (maths): Not published for 2023/24 or 2024/25.

Getting in

Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.

First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.

Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.

You: the straight line from the centre of Bacup (the area you came from) to the school, not from your door; inside or outside compares it with the latest distance offered.

Inspections

GoodRequires improvementInadequateReport cardUngraded visit, no grade

Dates are the day each inspection started: Apr 2026 Report card, lowest Needs attention · May 2025 Ungraded visit · Dec 2024 Ungraded visit · Apr 2024 Inadequate · Oct 2018 Good · Oct 2017 Ungraded visit · Jun 2016 Inadequate · Mar 2014 Requires improvement. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.

Report-card areas graded Exceptional or Strong standard, and Needs attention or Urgent improvement, out of the areas graded; Expected standard counts as neither. Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.

Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.

Pupils

Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (210 places), from Get Information about Schools.

Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.

Workforce

School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 6.9, leadership 2, teaching assistants 7.95, support staff incl. TAs 11.85, whole workforce 18.75 (26 people), 7 teachers by headcount.

Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.

Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.

• DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
• DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
• Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads

Financials

Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.

Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.

CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.

Why some figures are missing

Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).

All sources and licences (6)

• Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
• Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
• Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
• Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
• Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
• Department for Education, Get Information about Schools

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