All Saints' Roman Catholic High School
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
F36
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Rossendale, BB4 6SJ
- Distance
- 2.0km away
Alder Grange School
Calder Road, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 8HW
Local ranking54th of 82 secondary schools in Lancashire
Ofsted: ExpectedUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
902
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · 2025 A-levels · Ofsted inspection 10 March 2026. Figures last updated .
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum & teaching
- Expected standard
- Attendance & behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership & governance
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Post-16 provision
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 39.1 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 29.4% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 53.1% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 143
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 92.0%
- Continued in education
- 82.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 7.0%
- Employment
- 3.0%
- Not sustained
- 8.0%
After A-Levels 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 82.0%
- Higher education
- 43.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 14.0%
- Employment
- 18.0%
- Not sustained
- 12.0%
A-Level Results
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
C-
Avg A-Level Grade
26.7
Avg Points/Entry
nat 35.0
26.0
Best 3 A-Levels
nat 35.8
65
A-Level Students
- AAB+ with Facilitating
- 5.3% nat17.5%
- Applied General Avg Points
- 27.9
- 16-18 Cohort
- 161
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 902
- Boys
- 438 (49%)
- Girls
- 461 (51%)
- Capacity
- 902 (100% full)
- SEND
- 18.0%
- FSM Eligible
- 24.3%
- EAL
- 5.1%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 4.3%
- SEN Support
- 13.6%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 15.4:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.6
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,631/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.5% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 20.5% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 83.7%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 5.7%
- Asian Pakistani: 2.9%
- Mixed Other: 1.7%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.6%
- White Other: 1.1%
- Asian Other: 1.0%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.7%
83.7%
White British
5.7%
Asian Bangladeshi
2.9%
Asian Pakistani
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Calder Road
Rossendale, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 119722
- UKPRN
- 10014787
- Establishment No.
- 4030
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