Birtenshaw School Bolton
Special / other · Bolton · BL7 9AB
Data updated
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 18 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
137 pupils · 98% of 140 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Non-maintained special school
- Age range
- 3–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 9.4% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 13.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.birtenshaw.org.uk
- URN
- 105280
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 1 families named it first for 1 Year 7 places, 1.00 first choices per place. An ungraded Ofsted inspection on 18 November 2022 confirmed its earlier grade, Good. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 13.1% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Compare admissions across the area: Bolton school admissions · the wider Bolton authority
GCSE results (2024/2025)
9 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means National averages are not shown here. The England figures are dominated by mainstream schools, and pupils at a special school are working towards outcomes those measures were not designed to capture, so the comparison would mislead more than it tells you.
Special educational needs
Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Severe Learning Difficulty
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 67% (Bolton 58%, England 66%) · Any other Asian background 18% (Bolton 3%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 4% (Bolton 12%, England 4%) · Black African 3% (Bolton 7%, England 5%) · Not recorded 2% (Bolton 1%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Bolton 1%, England 2%) · Any other White background 2% (Bolton 1%, England 4%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Bolton 3%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 1% (Bolton 5%, England 2%) · Any other Black background 1% (Bolton 2%, England 1%)
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
0.00 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, special schools: 12.32 suspensions and 0.08 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Bolton: 17.49 suspensions and 0.32 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Where pupils go after GCSEs
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.
Inspection history since 2015
- 28 February 2024: S8 No Formal Designation Visit
- 17 November 2022: School remains Good
- 28 June 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 8/10less deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 37.6% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 14.9% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 43.2% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 11.7% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 48.4% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 87.3% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 2.7% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 9.8% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 34.6% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 1.2% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 29.4% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 14.2% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01004806 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £240,000340 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £190,000–£314,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 0an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 8an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 3an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted