The wider Lancashire county has shortage of fantastic state primary schools, and the Burnley area has shown it has its fair share too.
The government’s latest preliminary performance figures for state-funded primary schools were released last month, shortly after it published its delayed performance figures for secondary schools. From this data, we’ve been able to compare how primary schools in the Burnley parliament constituency did, when it came to key performance metrics.
We’ve created a league table based on the percentage of each school’s pupils who completed Year 6 in the 2023/24 academic year, who met the government’s expected standards in three areas: reading, writing and maths. We’ve included only schools which met or exceeded 60% - the Lancashire County Council area’s average.
But academic performance isn’t everything, so we’ve also made sure that each school included had an overall Ofsted rating of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ before this measure was recently dropped, or, if they’ve been inspected more recently, had at least ‘good’ grades across the board. This means that the quality of education provided, student behaviour and attitudes, school leadership and management and student safeguarding were all found to meet or surpass government standards last time the school was inspected.
Here are the 9 Burnley schools that made the list:
9. St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Primary School, Padiham
Rounding out the list, this St John the Baptist is a Catholic primary school in Padiham, formerly rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted. It has about 226 pupils. In the 2023/24 school year, 60% of its pupils also met the Government’s expected standards for reading, writing, and maths - compared to averages of 60% locally and 61% nationally. | Google