Primary
Rawtenstall Balladen Community Primary School
Linden Lea, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 6DX
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 109 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
- Local authority
- Lancashire
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 8.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 14.4
- Pupils per adult
- 10.4
- Pupils
- 150
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 October 2024
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Early yearsRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
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)Earlier inspections1
November 2021
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
SATs results
32%
27 points below the Rossendale average (59% across 13 schools)
102.0
3.1 below the Rossendale average (105.1 across 13 schools)
13th 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 | 97 |
| Average reading score | 102 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 32% |
| 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 | 23% |
| 23/24 | 12% |
| 24/25 | 32% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 99.0 |
| 23/24 | 98.0 |
| 24/25 | 102.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 97.0 |
| 23/24 | 93.0 |
| 24/25 | 97.0 |
Linden Lea, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 6DX
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
- Daniel Hargreaves
- Address
- Linden Lea, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 6DX
- Telephone
- 01706215233
Other primary schools nearby
- Rawtenstall Cribden House Community Special SchoolNot enough data
- St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall7.5/10
- St Mary's CofE Primary School Rawtenstall4.1/10
- Rawtenstall St Paul's Church of England Primary School5.1/10
- Haslingden Broadway Primary School5.8/10
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Haslingden7.8/10