Primary
Briercliffe Primary School
Delamere Road, Briercliffe, Burnley, BB10 2JU
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 5 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 388 of 420 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.0
- Local authority
- Lancashire
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 18.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 29.1
- Pupils per adult
- 13.6
- Pupils
- 396
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 January 2026
- AchievementExpected standard
- Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
- Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
- Early yearsExpected standard
- InclusionExpected standard
- Leadership and governanceExpected standard
- Personal development and wellbeingExpected standard
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections2
June 2023
Previous framework
Requires improvement
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
February 2020
Ungraded inspection
Good
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SATs results
69%
11 points above the Burnley average (58% across 33 schools)
103.0
1.2 below the Burnley average (104.2 across 33 schools)
26th of 33 by our score, among the primary schools in Burnley we can score - 35 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 | 104 |
| Average reading score | 103 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 69% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
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 | 67% |
| 23/24 | 51% |
| 24/25 | 69% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 100.0 |
| 24/25 | 103.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 102.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
Delamere Road, Briercliffe, Burnley, BB10 2JU
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
- Joanne Ramsbottom
- Address
- Delamere Road, Briercliffe, Burnley, BB10 2JU
- Telephone
- 01282459421
Other primary schools nearby
- St James' Lanehead Church of England Primary School4.1/10
- Reedley Primary School6.0/10
- Casterton Primary Academy6.8/10
- St John the Baptist RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy6.0/10
- Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy7.1/10
- Nelson St Paul's Church of England Primary School4.5/10