Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, Hyndburn
Ofsted: Expected
Score
C61
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Accrington, BB5 0LU
- Distance
- 0.8km away
Rhyddings
Haworth Street, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, BB5 3EA
Local ranking77th of 82 secondary schools in Lancashire
Ofsted: Requires improvementUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
771
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 8 January 2025. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Rhyddings (URN 119721) since 1 June 2022. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 8 January 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 33.9 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 21.1% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 40.7% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 123
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 85.0%
- Continued in education
- 76.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 5.0%
- Employment
- 4.0%
- Not sustained
- 13.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 683
- Boys
- 327 (54%)
- Girls
- 283 (46%)
- Capacity
- 771 (79% full)
- SEND
- 14.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 47.3%
- EAL
- 28.1%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.2%
- SEN Support
- 12.3%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 16.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 40.9
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,445/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
- 11.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 37.1% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 48.7%
- Asian Pakistani: 37.9%
- Other: 2.4%
- Mixed Other: 2.1%
- Black African: 1.9%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.6%
- White Other: 1.0%
- Asian Other: 0.9%
48.7%
White British
37.9%
Asian Pakistani
2.4%
Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Haworth Street
Accrington, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 148921
- UKPRN
- 10089899
- Establishment No.
- 4026
- Trust
- LET EDUCATION TRUST
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