Primary
Great Harwood Primary School
Rushton Street, Great Harwood, Blackburn, BB6 7JQ
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 210 of 315 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.0
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Nursery
- Yes
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 17.2
- Pupils per adult
- 11.0
- Pupils
- 189
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected September 2023
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
52%
12 points below the Blackburn average (64% across 49 schools)
102.0
3.3 below the Blackburn average (105.3 across 49 schools)
36th of 49 by our score, among the primary schools in Blackburn we can score - 54 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 106 |
| Average reading score | 102 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 52% |
| Working at a higher standard | 6% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 40% |
| 23/24 | 56% |
| 24/25 | 52% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 100.0 |
| 23/24 | 103.0 |
| 24/25 | 102.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 101.0 |
| 23/24 | 103.0 |
| 24/25 | 106.0 |
Rushton Street, Great Harwood, Blackburn, BB6 7JQ
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Lancashire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- John McKenna
- Address
- Rushton Street, Great Harwood, Blackburn, BB6 7JQ
- Telephone
- 01254880810
Other primary schools nearby
- St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood4.3/10
- Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School5.3/10
- Great Harwood St Bartholomew's Parish Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School5.9/10
- St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood5.7/10
- Rishton St Peter and St Paul's Church of England Primary School6.2/10
- Rishton Methodist Primary School6.3/10