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Rossendale

North West, England · population ~71k · 42 state-funded schools

Median full-time pay

£37,752/yrMid

ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025

Median house price

£185,000Affordable

ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025

Median monthly rent

£810/moAffordable

ONS PIPR · 2026-03

Council tax (Band D)

£2,520/yrMost expensive

MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27

Crime per 1,000

64.2/1kLow

ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025

IMD score

24.1Mid

MHCLG IoD · 2019

Schools Good+ (legacy)

86.8%Weak

Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot

Schools Outstanding

3.0%· 3 schools

Of 35 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot

State-funded schools in Rossendale

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42 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 (35 of 42 here), 78.6% 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.

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Showing 20 of 42 schools.

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Haslingden High School and Sixth Form
Secondary1,552Good·11/05/2022OfstedWebsite
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Secondary1,056Inadequate14/06/2022OfstedWebsite
Alder Grange School
Secondary902Good·12/01/2022OfstedWebsite
Whitworth Community High School
Secondary651Good·22/03/2023OfstedWebsite
The Valley Leadership Academy
Secondary589Requires Improvement19/09/2023OfstedWebsite
All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy
Secondary498Requires Improvement30/04/2024OfstedWebsite
Helmshore Primary School
Primary385Good30/01/2024OfstedWebsite
Haslingden Primary School
Primary381Good·02/05/2024OfstedWebsite
Tonacliffe Primary School
Primary305Good02/07/2024OfstedWebsite
Crawshawbooth Primary School
Primary302Good·08/03/2023OfstedWebsite
Waterfoot Primary School
Primary299Good·14/12/2022OfstedWebsite
Rawtenstall St Paul's Church of England Primary School
Primary280Good·26/01/2023OfstedWebsite
Bacup Thorn Primary School
Primary274Good28/11/2023OfstedWebsite
Tor View School
Special258Not graded26/02/2025OfstedWebsite
Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary School
Primary233Good02/07/2024OfstedWebsite
St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall
Primary213Good·19/01/2023OfstedWebsite
Haslingden Broadway Primary School
Primary210Not graded14/01/2025OfstedWebsite
Britannia Community Primary School
Primary209Good·26/01/2022OfstedWebsite
Haslingden St James Church of England Primary School
Primary207Good·17/04/2024OfstedWebsite
Our Lady and St Anselm's Roman Catholic Primary School, Whitworth
Primary204Good12/03/2024OfstedWebsite

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.