Thorneyholme Roman Catholic Primary School, Dunsop Bridge
Primary · Clitheroe · BB7 3BG
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Standards maintained”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade. No graded inspection appears in Ofsted's records for this school since 2015 either, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Any earlier grade is on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 12 March 2025
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25 pupils · 36% of 70 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 25% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 5% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 119689
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place6 places offered · 6 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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.
Compare admissions across the area: Clitheroe school admissions · Lancashire school admissions
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
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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.
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
- 11 March 2025: Standards maintained
- 5 June 2019: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 7/10less deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 6/10around the middle for England
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 40.7% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 14.8% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 41.2% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 10.3% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 53.9% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 70.7% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 10.1% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 19.1% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 48.3% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 2.9% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 34.4% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 5.1% | 23.5% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01025322 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,220 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0a rural school averages 0.3
- Collisions at school-run times
- 0a rural school averages 0.7
- All reported collisions
- 1a rural school averages 3.4
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 0a rural school averages 0.9
Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby schools
- Slaidburn Brennands Endowed Primary School
- Brabins Endowed School
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Chipping
- Waddington and West Bradford Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Edisford Primary School
- St Michael and St John's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- St James' Church of England Primary School, Clitheroe
- Ribblesdale Nursery School