Burnley St Stephen's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

About Burnley St Stephen's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

Burnley St Stephen's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School sits well below the Lancashire local authority average for Key Stage 2 outcomes, a gap that is hard to ignore when comparing its headline metrics. In the 2023/24 academic year, just 27% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, against a county average of 60%. That places the school 407th out of 480 primary schools in Lancashire, and in the bottom 50 nationally by this measure. The school’s rank within Burnley itself is 27th out of 28, putting it in the 96th percentile of the local area — meaning only one school in the borough performs lower. For context, the top-performing local school, Crawford Village Primary, scores a perfect 100 on the same ranking metric. The picture is not uniformly bleak: maths and reading average scores both sit at 103, which is around the national expectation, and 53% of pupils reached the expected level in maths individually. But the combined figure tells a starker story, and parents comparing options will want to understand why the school’s overall attainment lags so far behind its peers.

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