Waterfoot Primary School
Primary · Rossendale · BB4 9DA
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 14 December 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
296 pupils · 94% of 315 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 24% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 7.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4% of pupils
- URN
- 119199
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.82 first-choice applications per place33 places offered · 27 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
44 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
86% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 14% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 13 December 2022: School remains Good
- 6 June 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
- The Valley Leadership Academy
- Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School
- Staghills Nursery School
- St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch
- St Anne's Church of England Primary School
- Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary School
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup