Whalley Church of England Primary School
Primary · Clitheroe · BB7 9SY
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 1 December 2021
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315 pupils · 100% of 315 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 6.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 11.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.9% of pupils
- URN
- 119429
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.86 first-choice applications per place43 places offered · 37 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
43 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)
94% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% 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
- 30 November 2021: School remains Good
- 9 November 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy
- Langho and Billington St Leonards Church of England Primary School
- Barrow URC Primary School
- Great Harwood St Bartholomew's Parish Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood
- Read St John's CofE Primary School
- Great Harwood Primary School
- St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood