Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School

Category of concern: SM

1. Looked after — Looked After/Previously Looked After Children
2. Area 1 feeder — Children attending Area 1 primary schools, ranked by entrance exam mark (siblings at BRGS get priority within this tier)
3. Area 2 feeder — Children attending Area 2 primary schools, ranked by entrance exam mark (siblings at BRGS get priority within this tier)
4. Staff child — Children of staff employed ≥2 years

There is no shared Lancashire 11+ — each school sets its own exam, and formats/providers differ and have changed recently, so always check the school's own admissions page for the current year. As of the 2026 test round: - Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School — GL Assessment-style multiple-choice papers (maths, English, verbal reasoning). - Clitheroe Royal Grammar School — moved to FSCE (Future Stories Community Enterprise) papers: Paper 1 English & maths multiple-choice, Paper 2 English & maths short written answers. - Lancaster Girls' Grammar School — FSCE papers. - Lancaster Royal Grammar School — GL Assessment-style papers (maths, English, verbal reasoning). Because providers differ, practice material for one Lancashire school may not match another's format — and a child applying to schools in both Clitheroe/Lancaster and the Bacup area may face two different exam styles.

Of the 184-student 2019/20 leaver cohort, sustaining a higher-education destination the following year. This is the last cohort the Department for Education published with an Oxbridge/Russell Group breakdown — these categories were discontinued as official accountability measures after this release, so a more recent figure does not exist.

Median price for the school's electoral ward, year ending March 2023 — a neighbourhood-level indicator, not the school's actual admissions catchment (catchments are often smaller than a ward or span parts of several).

• Waterfoot Primary, Waterfoot (Area 1)
• Water Primary, Rossendale (Area 1)
• Thorn Primary, Bacup (Area 1)
• St. Saviour's Community Primary, Bacup (Area 1)
• St. Peter's RC Primary, Newchurch (Area 1)
• St. Mary's RC Primary, Bacup (Area 1)
• St. Mary's CE Primary, Rawtenstall (Area 1)
• St. Joseph's RC Primary, Stacksteads (Area 1)
• St. James the Less RC Primary, Rawtenstall (Area 1)
• St. Anne's Edgeside CE, Waterfoot (Area 1)
• Sharneyford Primary, Bacup (Area 1)
• Northern Primary, Bacup (Area 1)
• Newchurch CE Primary, Newchurch (Area 1)
• Holy Trinity CE Primary, Stacksteads (Area 1)
• Crawshawbooth Primary, Crawshawbooth (Area 1)
• St. Paul's CE Primary, Rawtenstall (Area 1)
• Britannia Community Primary, Bacup (Area 1)
• Balladen Primary, Rawtenstall (Area 1)
• Tonacliffe Primary, Whitworth (Area 2)
• Stubbins Primary, Stubbins (Area 2)