Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Ofsted: Inadequate
Score
C58
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Rossendale, BB4 7BJ
- Distance
- 0.6km away
The Valley Leadership Academy
Fearns Moss, Bacup, OL13 0TG
Local ranking73rd of 80 secondary schools in Lancashire
Ofsted: Expected
Secondary
Phase
1050
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum & teaching
- Needs attention
- Attendance & behaviour
- Needs attention
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership & governance
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 32.6 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 30.5% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 50.0% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 32.9% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 2.9 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 82
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 78.0%
- Continued in education
- 75.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 1.0%
- Employment
- 1.0%
- Not sustained
- 17.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 589
- Boys
- 284 (48%)
- Girls
- 305 (52%)
- Capacity
- 1050 (56% full)
- SEND
- 25.8%
- FSM Eligible
- 46.9%
- EAL
- 1.9%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.2%
- SEN Support
- 22.6%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 19.0:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31.0
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,798/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 15.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 45.1% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 91.3%
- Black African: 1.6%
- Mixed Other: 1.1%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.1%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.9%
- White Irish: 0.7%
- White Other: 0.7%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.7%
91.3%
White British
1.6%
Black African
1.1%
Mixed Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Fearns Moss
Bacup, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 147018
- UKPRN
- 10083657
- Establishment No.
- 4025
- Trust
- STAR ACADEMIES
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