Balshaw's Church of England High School

Ofsted

▲Good (2023) — Rated under the pre-September 2024 inspection system

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 2 February 2023, published 20 March 2023. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Roughly one first choice per place — 1.12 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• !Wellfield Academy 1.2 km · Requires improvement (2021) · previous system
• –St Mary's Catholic High School 1.6 km · Standards maintained (2025)
• –Academy@Worden 1.9 km · No overall grade (2025)
• ▲Parklands High School 4.4 km · Good — confirmed 2023 · previous system
• ▲St Michael's Church of England High School 4.5 km · Good (2022) · previous system
• ▲Lostock Hall Academy 4.7 km · Good — confirmed 2022 · previous system

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.