Primary
Whittlefield Primary School
Tabor Street, Burnley, BB12 0HL
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 188 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.6
- Local authority
- Lancashire
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.5
- All staff (FTE)
- 20.1
- Pupils per adult
- 11.2
- Pupils
- 224
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
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
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
67%
9 points above the Burnley average (58% across 33 schools)
102.0
2.2 below the Burnley average (104.2 across 33 schools)
10th 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 | 103 |
| Average reading score | 102 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 67% |
| 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 | 34% |
| 23/24 | 10% |
| 24/25 | 67% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 100.0 |
| 23/24 | 98.0 |
| 24/25 | 102.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 99.0 |
| 23/24 | 97.0 |
| 24/25 | 103.0 |
Tabor Street, Burnley, BB12 0HL
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
- Jane Thistlethwaite
- Address
- Tabor Street, Burnley, BB12 0HL
- Telephone
- 01282429419
Other primary schools nearby
- Burnley Ightenhill Primary School5.4/10
- Wellfield Methodist and Anglican Church School6.6/10
- St Mary Magdalene Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy6.7/10
- St Augustine of Canterbury RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy5.7/10
- Burnley Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School5.6/10
- Rosegrove Infant SchoolNot enough data