Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Secondary · Rossendale · BB4 7BJ
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 14 June 2022
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1,087 pupils · 86% of 1,260 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Selective
- Free school meals
- 7.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 7.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 7.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 0.8% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- https://www.brgs.org.uk/
- URN
- 150261
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.21 first-choice applications per place181 places offered · 219 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)
175 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.
A-level results (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)
88% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 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, academy 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.
Nearby schools
- Waterfoot Primary 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