Primary
Walverden Primary School
Bracewell Street, Nelson, BB9 0TL
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 448 of 420 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Nursery
- Yes
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.2
- All staff (FTE)
- 42.4
- Pupils per adult
- 10.3
- Pupils
- 437
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 March 2023
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. 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.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
65%
1 points above the Nelson average (64% across 16 schools)
103.0
1.4 below the Nelson average (104.4 across 16 schools)
6th of 16 by our score, among the primary schools in Nelson we can score - 17 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 | 65% |
| Working at a higher standard | 12% |
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 | 60% |
| 23/24 | 67% |
| 24/25 | 65% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 102.0 |
| 23/24 | 103.0 |
| 24/25 | 103.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 106.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
Bracewell Street, Nelson, BB9 0TL
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
- H Ahmed
- Address
- Bracewell Street, Nelson, BB9 0TL
- Telephone
- 01282614834
Other primary schools nearby
- Nelson St Philip's Church of England Primary School5.9/10
- Marsden Community Primary School6.3/10
- Great Marsden St John's Primary School A Church of England Academy5.1/10
- Bradley Primary School6.1/10
- St John Southworth RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy4.2/10
- Nelson St Paul's Church of England Primary School4.5/10