Voluntary aided school · Primary
BB4 4EZ · Lancashire
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.2 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 119195
Helmshore Primary School
Community school · Rossendale · BB4 4JW
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 5–11
Pupils
397
Local authority
Lancashire
Age range
Ages 5–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 5–11, in Rossendale, Lancashire, 397 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 5.8%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 119195
Location
- Address
- Gregory Fold, Helmshore
- Postcode
- BB4 4JW
- Town
- Rossendale
- County
- Lancashire
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- District
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 397
- Boys / girls
- 187 / 210
- School capacity
- 414
- Capacity fill
- 397 / 414 (96%)
- Free school meals
- 5.8%
- FSM pupils
- 23
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Christine Myers
- Telephone
- 01706213756
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-01-30
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 78%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 18%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 109.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 108.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 110.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
4.1%
Persistent absence
8.3%
Unauthorised
0.9%
- Authorised absence
- 3.1%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 351
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 4.1% · Persistent 7.9%
- 2021/22
- Overall 5.2% · Persistent 12.6%