Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in LancashireSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Requires improvement |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry500 applications · 199 places offered · 165 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.5; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2025 2.8; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2024 3.0; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2023 3.0; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2022 3.4; Lancashire median median 2.5
- 2021 3.3; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2020 3.4; Lancashire median median 2.8
- 2019 3.3; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2018 3.2; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2017 3.0; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2016 3.1; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2015 3.2; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2014 3.5; Lancashire median median 2.6
- This school
- Lancashire median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 199 | 500 | 2.5 | 165 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2025 | 184 | 518 | 2.8 | 178 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 198 | 596 | 3.0 | 191 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 | 198 | 584 | 3.0 | 180 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2022 | 198 | 666 | 3.4 | 242 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2021 | 199 | 656 | 3.3 | 216 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2020 | 199 | 681 | 3.4 | 219 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2019 | 200 | 660 | 3.3 | 223 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2018 | 199 | 630 | 3.2 | 226 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2017 | 196 | 584 | 3.0 | 232 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2016 | 199 | 612 | 3.1 | 230 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2015 | 179 | 570 | 3.2 | 201 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2014 | 181 | 626 | 3.5 | 263 | 1.45 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 189 | 39.8 | 37% | 51% | – |
| 2024/25 | 186 | 39.4 | 39% | 57% | – |
| 2023/24 | 188 | 39.7 | 34% | 57% | −0.62 |
| 2022/23 | 183 | 40.6 | 30% | 55% | −0.40 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Accrington AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place 39.8Attainment 8
- 0.3 km · Lancashire20264.0applications per place 50.5Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · Lancashire20252.7applications per place 43.5Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 33.9Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · LancashireStandards maintained20243.3applications per place 41.9Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · Lancashire20261.8applications per place 37.1Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · Blackburn with DarwenRequires improvement20231.3applications per place 36.6Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 38.0Attainment 8
- 6.5 km · Lancashire20264.6applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135649 · 888/6905
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Christian
- Capacity
- 1,150 pupils · 953 on roll
- Free school meals
- 42.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2008
- Replaced
- Accrington Moorhead Sports College (URN 119760)
- Address
- Queens Road West, Accrington, BB5 4FF
- Local authority
- Lancashire · Hyndburn
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources