United Kingdom / Regions / Burnley
Burnley
North West, England · population ~89k · 49 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 43 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Burnley
49 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (43 of 49 here), 70.5% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 49 schools.
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Unity College | Secondary | 1,416 | Requires Improvement | 20/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Blessed Trinity Roman Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 1,273 | Requires Improvement | 26/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Sir John Thursby Community College | Secondary | 1,118 | Good | 25/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Shuttleworth College | Secondary | 1,079 | Not graded | 11/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Heasandford Primary School | Primary | 632 | Good | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Burnley High School | Secondary | 607 | Good· | 29/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Barden Primary School | Primary | 468 | Good | 25/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Rosewood Primary School | Primary | 424 | Not graded | 12/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Burnley Stoneyholme Community Primary School | Primary | 422 | Not graded | 04/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Burnley Brunshaw Primary School | Primary | 401 | Good | 11/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Briercliffe Primary School | Primary | 396 | Requires Improvement | 06/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Cherry Fold Community Primary School | Primary | 384 | Good· | 20/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Burnley Ightenhill Primary School | Primary | 362 | Good· | 24/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Padiham St Leonard's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School | Primary | 334 | Requires Improvement | 08/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Casterton Primary Academy | Primary | 289 | Good | 04/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Padiham Primary School | Primary | 281 | Good· | 08/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St James' Lanehead Church of England Primary School | Primary | 280 | Good· | 09/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Broadfield Specialist School | Special | 242 | Outstanding· | 06/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Primary School, Padiham | Primary | 234 | Good· | 29/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St John the Baptist RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | 212 | Good· | 10/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.