Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
| Postal address | Glen Road Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 7BJ |
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| Telephone | 01706 234500 |
| Headteacher | Mr A Porteous |
| Number on roll January 2024 | 1121 |
| Admission number 2025/26 | 180 |
Information relating to autumn term 2024 year 7 admissions
Total parental preferences (considered equally)
| 1st | 213 |
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| 2nd | 76 |
| 3rd | 53 |
| Total preferences received | 342 |
Summary of policy
Year 7 Admission for Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
The published admission number is 180. As a designated Grammar School, the school is allowed to select its entire intake on the basis of high academic ability. Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School does not have to fill all places if applicants have not reached the required standard within the selection procedure.
The selection procedure is the entrance examination, held on site at the school. Passing the entrance examination is not a guarantee of a place. Children are not able to sit the entrance exam more than once. The structure of the entrance examination will be published in the entrance examination guide to parents (“The Blue Book”) by the beginning of the summer term each year. Further information on the test is also available in the admissions handbook.
If the school is oversubscribed, children who meet the required standard will be admitted in accordance with the oversubscription criteria in the order listed below, once all children who meet the required standard with an education, health and care plan, naming the school are admitted.
Oversubscription criteria
1) Looked after children or a child who was previously looked after, but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangement order, or special guardianship order or those children who appear to the school to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2) Children attending Area 1 primary schools ranked in order of overall entrance examination mark – schools listed below.
3) Children attending Area 2 primary schools ranked in order of overall entrance examination mark – schools listed below.
4) Children of staff employed at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School for 2 or more years at the time at which the application for admission is made, and / or the member of staff has been recruited to fill a post where there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
5) All other children ranked in order of overall entrance examination mark.
Tie-breaker
Where two (or more) children have the same ranking and consideration of the above area priorities has already been applied, then the children who live nearest from their home address to the school are given priority. This distance is measured using the postal address of the school, in a direct line to the actual address for the child’s home.
If the distance between home and school is the same, which includes the same geographical property reference (such as a block of flats), random allocation is used as a tie-breaker. Lancashire County Council’s School Admissions Team will undertake the random allocation process in the presence of a school representative.
For the purposes of this policy, attendance at an Area 1 or 2 primary school is defined as being for the duration of year 6, as a minimum.
Area 1 primary schools are as follows:
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Balladen Primary, Rawtenstall Britannia Community Primary, Bacup St. Paul’s CE Primary, Rawtenstall Crawshawbooth Primary, Crawshawbooth Holy Trinity CE Primary, Stacksteads Newchurch CE Primary, Newchurch Northern Primary, Bacup Sharneyford Primary, Bacup St. Anne’s Edgeside CE, Waterfoot |
St. James the Less RC Primary, Rawtenstall St. Joseph’s RC Primary, Stacksteads St. Mary’s CE Primary, Rawtenstall St. Mary’s RC Primary, Bacup St. Peter’s RC Primary, Newchurch St. Saviour’s Community Primary, Bacup Thorn Primary, Bacup Water Primary, Rossendale Waterfoot Primary, Waterfoot |
Area 2 primary schools are as follows:
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Broadway Primary, Haslingden Edenfield CE, Edenfield Haslingden Primary, Haslingden Helmshore Primary, Helmshore Our Lady & St Anselm’s RC Primary, Whitworth St. Bartholomew's CE Primary, Whitworth St. James CE Primary, Haslingden |
St. John’s Stonefold CE Primary, Accrington St. John with St. Michael CE Primary, Shawforth St. Mary’s RC Primary, Haslingden St. Veronica’s RC Primary, Helmshore Stubbins Primary, Stubbins Tonacliffe Primary, Whitworth |
Transport (Years 7-11)
Please see the main school admissions section.
Parents in any doubt over the distance between home and school for the provision of transport are asked to check with their local area education office. This may be particularly relevant if you live close to a county border.