The Valley Leadership Academy
Ofsted: Expected
Score
F34
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Bacup, OL13 0TG
- Distance
- 0.6km away
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Glen Road, Rossendale, BB4 7BJ
Local ranking5th of 82 secondary schools in Lancashire
Ofsted: ExceptionalUpdated— score data refreshed 20 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1260
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · 2025 A-levels · Ofsted inspection 9 June 2026. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (URN 138835) since 1 September 2023. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Exceptional
- Curriculum & teaching
- Exceptional
- Attendance & behaviour
- Exceptional
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Exceptional
- Leadership & governance
- Exceptional
- Inclusion
- Exceptional
- Post-16 provision
- Exceptional
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 75.5 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 98.8% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 100.0% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 163
Destinations
After GCSE 2022-23
- Sustained education/employment
- 98.0%
- Continued in education
- 96.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 2.0%
- Employment
- 1.0%
- Not sustained
- 1.0%
After A-Levels 2022-23
- Sustained education/employment
- 95.0%
- Higher education
- 76.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 3.0%
- Employment
- 14.0%
- Not sustained
- 3.0%
A-Level Results
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
B
Avg A-Level Grade
39.5
Avg Points/Entry
nat 35.0
39.8
Best 3 A-Levels
nat 35.8
94
A-Level Students
- AAB+ with Facilitating
- 31.2% nat17.5%
- 16-18 Cohort
- 191
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1056
- Boys
- 557 (51%)
- Girls
- 530 (49%)
- Capacity
- 1260 (86% full)
- SEND
- 8.7%
- FSM Eligible
- 7.9%
- EAL
- 7.3%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 0.8%
- SEN Support
- 7.9%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 18.5:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 57.1
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,142/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
- 4.6% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 7.1% 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
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 59.5%
- Asian Pakistani: 18.0%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 3.5%
- Mixed Other: 3.4%
- Asian Other: 2.7%
- Asian Chinese: 2.6%
- White Other: 2.3%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.2%
59.5%
White British
18.0%
Asian Pakistani
3.5%
Asian Bangladeshi
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Glen Road
Rossendale, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 150261
- UKPRN
- 10093637
- Establishment No.
- 4032
- Trust
- STAR ACADEMIES
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