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Rossendale · BB4 6SJ · Lancashire
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
0.1 miles away
OpenURN 119879
Rawtenstall Cribden House Community Special School
Community special school · Rossendale · BB4 6RX
Age range
Ages 5–11
Pupils
116
Local authority
Lancashire
Age range
Ages 5–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- 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 special school, Ages 5–11, in Rossendale, Lancashire, 116 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: special school. Free school meals: 42.2%. SEN provision includes: SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health.
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Overview
- School type
- Community special school
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 119879
Location
- Address
- Haslingden Road, Rawtenstall
- Postcode
- BB4 6RX
- 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
- 116
- Boys / girls
- 84 / 32
- School capacity
- 91
- Capacity fill
- 116 / 91 (127%)
- Free school meals
- 42.2%
- FSM pupils
- 49
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
- Governance
- Community special school
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Joanne Ashworth
- Telephone
- 01706213048
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
Outstanding
Inspection date
2024-05-15
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- 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)
- 0%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 0%
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 109.0