Academy sponsor led · Secondary
Bacup · OL13 0TG · Lancashire
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenSecondaryOfsted: InadequateURN 150261
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Academy converter · Rossendale · BB4 7BJ
Ages 11–18 · 1,087 pupils · Lancashire
Ofsted
Inadequate
Attainment 8
72.0
Overall absence
5.0%
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Inadequate
Inspection date
2022-06-14
Category of concern
Special measures
- Overall effectiveness
- Inadequate
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Inadequate
- Personal development
- Inadequate
- Leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Safeguarding effective
- No
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Progress 8+0.36
−20+2
Attainment 872.0
English & maths grade 5+97%
English & maths grade 4+99%
EBacc entry97%
EBacc APS: 7.1
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence5.0%
Persistent absence (10%+)9.7%
Unauthorised0.8%
- Authorised absence
- 4.2%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 879
Absence trend
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill86%
1,087 pupils · 1,260 places
- Pupils on roll
- 1,087
- Boys / girls
- 557 / 530
- School capacity
- 1,260
- Capacity fill
- 1,087 / 1,260 (86%)
- Free school meals
- 7.3%
- FSM pupils
- 63
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Governance
- Academy trust: STAR ACADEMIES
- Academy trust
- STAR ACADEMIES
- Sponsor
- Star Academies
- Headteacher
- Mr James Johnstone
Location
- Address
- Glen Road
- Postcode
- BB4 7BJ
- Town
- Rossendale
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- District
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Rossendale, Lancashire, 1,087 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, selective admissions. Free school meals: 7.3%.
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Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr James Johnstone
- Telephone
- 01706234500