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Waterfoot Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–11 · Community school
Wolfenden Green, Waterfoot, Rossendale BB4 9DA · waterfoot.lancs.sch.uk · 01706 830639
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Dec 2022
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 73%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Lancashire 60%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 296
- 94% of 315 places
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Free school meals
- 24%
- First language not English
- 8.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 27 families put the school first and 33 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 33 | 27 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 36 | 31 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 45 | 44 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 33 | 32 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 41 | 38 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 73% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 5% the higher standard. Across Lancashire it was 60%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲73% | 62% | ||
| ▼5% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●106 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ●107 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 14 December 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Waterfoot Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 13 Dec 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jul 2012
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jul 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Mar 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
87% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (68 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 87%
- Replies
- 68
- 22% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 35% who had a child bullied
based on 11 parents (16%) with SEND
Also near this school
- Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
- Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School
- St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch
- St Anne's Church of England Primary School
- Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary School
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Stacksteads, Bacup