Academy · Lancashire
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Selective (11+)
- Sixth form
Term dates
Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Lancashire council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
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Selective school: Year 7 entry is by an entrance test (the 11+). Registration for the test usually closes in the summer of Year 5.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 219 families put this school as their first choice, and 181 places were offered. 172 of the families who put it first got a place (79%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 181 | 219 | 79% |
| September 2025 | 171 | 210 | 77% |
| September 2024 | 147 | 175 | 82% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
11+ entrance test
This school sets its own entrance test: Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School entrance examination. Register with the school directly.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 9 June 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Exceptional
- Curriculum and teaching
- Exceptional
- Achievement
- Exceptional
- Attendance and behaviour
- Exceptional
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Exceptional
- Sixth form
- Exceptional
- Leadership and governance
- Exceptional
Safeguarding standards: met.
Previous inspection, 14 June 2022. Overall: Inadequate It was inspected as Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, before the school changed (for example, became an academy).
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Academy
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 1087 (capacity 1260)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- STAR ACADEMIES
- Admissions
- Selective (entrance test)
- Phone
- 01706234500
- Address
- Glen Road, Rossendale, BB4 7BJ
- Website
- brgs.org.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.