Primary
Waterfoot Primary School
Wolfenden Green, Waterfoot, Rossendale, BB4 9DA
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 5 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 296 of 315 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.0
- Local authority
- Lancashire
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 14.3
- All staff (FTE)
- 26.2
- Pupils per adult
- 11.4
- Pupils
- 300
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 December 2022
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
73%
14 points above the Rossendale average (59% across 13 schools)
106.0
0.9 above the Rossendale average (105.1 across 13 schools)
6th of 13 by our score, among the primary schools in Rossendale we can score - 14 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 | 105 |
| Average reading score | 106 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 73% |
| Working at a higher standard | 5% |
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 | 57% |
| 23/24 | 52% |
| 24/25 | 73% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 106.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 102.0 |
| 23/24 | 102.0 |
| 24/25 | 105.0 |
Wolfenden Green, Waterfoot, Rossendale, BB4 9DA
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
- Kelly Devine
- Address
- Wolfenden Green, Waterfoot, Rossendale, BB4 9DA
- Telephone
- 01706830639
Other primary schools nearby
- Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School3.4/10
- St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch7.9/10
- St Anne's Church of England Primary School6.7/10
- Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary School4.7/10
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup3.2/10
- Rawtenstall Balladen Community Primary School3.1/10