Graded inspection · Jul 2024 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry159 applications · 100 places offered · 90 named it first
- 2026 1.6; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2025 1.7; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2024 1.8; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2023 2.0; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2022 1.6; Lancashire median median 2.5
- 2021 1.3; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2020 1.2; Lancashire median median 2.8
- 2019 1.4; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2018 1.8; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2017 1.6; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2016 1.6; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2015 1.6; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.3; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Lancashire median
Dashed bars: as West Craven High School (URN 119725), the previous school.
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 | 100 | 159 | 1.6 | 90 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 96 | 167 | 1.7 | 92 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2024 | 105 | 191 | 1.8 | 100 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2023 | 79 | 157 | 2.0 | 76 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2022 | 113 | 184 | 1.6 | 107 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2021 | 156 | 204 | 1.3 | 127 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2020 | 163 | 199 | 1.2 | 111 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2019 | 149 | 201 | 1.4 | 97 | 0.65 |
| Sep 2018 | 129 | 238 | 1.8 | 96 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2017 | 132 | 208 | 1.6 | 103 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2016 * | 136 | 213 | 1.6 | 111 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2015 * | 120 | 186 | 1.6 | 103 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2014 * | 117 | 147 | 1.3 | 85 | 0.73 |
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.) | 129 | 35.0 | 22% | 47% | – |
| 2024/25 | 140 | 37.4 | 34% | 52% | – |
| 2023/24 | 126 | 33.7 | 28% | 48% | −0.99 |
| 2022/23 | 127 | 34.4 | 24% | 54% | −0.76 |
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
- West Craven High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20241.6applications per place 35.0Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · Lancashire20262.2applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 7.1 km · Lancashire20263.7applications per place 37.1Attainment 8
- 7.4 km · Lancashire20263.1applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 7.8 km · Lancashire20262.4applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 9.9 km · LancashireGood20232.3applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 10.9 km · North YorkshireGood20232.6applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 11.3 km · LancashireGood20223.1applications per place 48.4Attainment 8
- 11.5 km · North YorkshireGood20222.0applications per place 67.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 142856 · 888/4040
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 845 pupils · 528 on roll
- Free school meals
- 28.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2016
- Replaced
- West Craven High School (URN 119725)
- Address
- Kelbrook Road, Barnoldswick, BB18 5TB
- Local authority
- Lancashire · Pendle
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources