Ridgewood Community High School
Special schoolRidgewood Community High School is a special school in Burnley, for pupils aged 11 to 19. It had 192 pupils at the school census in January 2026.
Ofsted
Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026School remains Good, November 2023
- Latest ungraded inspection
- School remains Good, 16 November 2023
Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.
Results
Department for EducationEnd of secondary school (KS4, GCSEs)
2025/26, provisional| Measure | This school | Burnley | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Attainment 8 score | Does not apply to this school | 36.4 | 46.2 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 30% | 46.3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 47.7% | 64.8% |
| Pupils at the end of KS4 | 31 | – | – |
- Ridgewood Community High School teaches pupils with needs that most schools' pupils do not have, often in very small year groups, so its results are not a fair comparison with mainstream schools. They are not shown on the map.
- The 2025/26 figures are provisional. The Department for Education publishes revised ones later in the school year.
- Progress 8 cannot be worked out for 2025/26, because the KS2 tests that give the starting point were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.
- Results reflect the pupils a school admits as well as its teaching, and a year's results can move a lot in a small school.
Schools nearby
In a straight line- Sir John Thursby Community CollegeSecondary. Good (overall), April 2023. Attainment 8 of 40.3 (2025/26, provisional)160 m
- Basnett Street Nursery SchoolNursery. Graded inspection, April 2025: no overall grade380 m
- Heasandford Primary SchoolPrimary. Good (overall), March 2024. 60% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)660 m
- St James' Lanehead Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary. Report card, April 2026: safeguarding met. 50% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)720 m
- St John the Baptist RC Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary. School remains Good, May 2024. 59% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1 km
- Casterton Primary AcademyPrimary. Good (overall), October 2022. 72% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.2 km
Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Burnley
Where these figures come from
- Schools: the school lists of the Department for Education, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government, with Ofsted’s latest inspections for England.
- Results: the Department for Education’s school performance tables (Open Government Licence).