Graded inspection · Apr 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 |
Inspection history
- 30 April 2024Graded inspection: Requires improvement
- 8 December 2022Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
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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 entry446 applications · 98 places offered · 107 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 4.6; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2025 4.5; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2024 4.3; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2023 4.1; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2022 4.2; Lancashire median median 2.5
- 2021 4.1; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2020 4.2; Lancashire median median 2.8
- 2019 4.9; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2018 4.2; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2017 4.0; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2016 3.1; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2015 3.4; Lancashire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2014 3.2; Lancashire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Lancashire median
Dashed bars: as All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, Rossendale (URN 119797), 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 | 98 | 446 | 4.6 | 107 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2025 | 102 | 457 | 4.5 | 97 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2024 | 100 | 425 | 4.3 | 86 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2023 | 104 | 430 | 4.1 | 73 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2022 | 97 | 411 | 4.2 | 73 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2021 | 99 | 409 | 4.1 | 83 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2020 | 100 | 415 | 4.2 | 89 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2019 * | 99 | 481 | 4.9 | 126 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2018 * | 99 | 413 | 4.2 | 86 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2017 * | 99 | 400 | 4.0 | 90 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2016 * | 100 | 314 | 3.1 | 80 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2015 * | 74 | 250 | 3.4 | 55 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2014 * | 87 | 275 | 3.2 | 70 | 0.80 |
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.) | 94 | 42.6 | 36% | 54% | – |
| 2024/25 | 96 | 35.3 | 19% | 43% | – |
| 2023/24 | 91 | 38.1 | 31% | 52% | −0.78 |
| 2022/23 | 92 | 38.7 | 27% | 54% | −0.81 |
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
- All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20244.6applications per place 42.6Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · Lancashire20262.5applications per place 45.3Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Lancashire20263.4applications per place 39.1Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · LancashireSpecial measures 20262.1applications per place 75.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.4 km · Lancashire20261.0applications per place 34.3Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · LancashireStandards maintained20243.3applications per place 41.9Attainment 8
- 7.1 km · Lancashire20252.7applications per place 43.5Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · BuryGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place 49.8Attainment 8
- 7.7 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 33.9Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 147565 · 888/4709
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 500 pupils · 504 on roll
- Free school meals
- 36.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 February 2020
- Replaced
- All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, Rossendale (URN 119797)
- Address
- Haslingden Road, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 6SJ
- Local authority
- Lancashire · Rossendale
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources