Shuttleworth College
Secondary · Burnley · BB12 8ST
Not yet graded
No graded inspection outcome is available for this school under either the current or the previous framework. This is common for recently opened or converted schools.
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,072 pupils · 100% of 1,050 capacity
- School type
- Foundation school
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 48.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 26.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.6% of pupils
- URN
- 134994
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.13 first-choice applications per place192 places offered · 217 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
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.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
212 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
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. “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)
81% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% moved to another state school · 11% 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.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 11 March 2025: Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 3
- 21 September 2022: Requires improvement
- 23 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 29 October 2019: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 26 June 2018: Requires improvement
- 25 April 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 26 April 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Padiham Primary School
- Whitegate Nursery School
- Burnley High School
- Padiham Green Church of England Primary School
- St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Primary School, Padiham
- Burnley Lowerhouse Junior School
- Padiham St Leonard's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School
- St Augustine of Canterbury RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy