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St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood

Hyndburn, BB6 7SNPrimaryAges 4–11MixedState
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted inspected
5 Good
Oct 2024
KS2 Results
55%
meeting expected standard in RWM
Competition
1.0×
Not oversubscribed
15 1st-choice / 15 places
Ranking
#9,391
of 13,686 nationally

About St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood

St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School in Great Harwood is a small state primary in the Lancashire local authority, sitting within the Hyndburn borough. Among the 480 primary schools in the county, it ranks 284th based on its Key Stage 2 results, placing it in the bottom half of schools regionally and nationally. The top-performing peers in Lancashire include Crawford Village Primary School, New Longton All Saints CofE Primary School, and St George's Church of England Primary School in Chorley, all of which score significantly higher on the same ranking metric. St Hubert's is a voluntary-aided Roman Catholic school with a mixed intake of 148 pupils, well below its capacity of 175. It is heavily oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, the school received 46 applications for just 15 places, all of which went to first-preference families, giving an oversubscription ratio of over three to one. The school is led by headteacher Julie Brooks and was rated Good in its most recent Ofsted inspection in October 2024, a rating it has held consistently since at least 2015.

Key Details

School TypePrimary (State)
Age Range4 to 11 years
GenderMixed
Religious CharacterRoman Catholic
AddressHallfield Road, Blackburn, Hyndburn, BB6 7SN
HeadteacherJulie Brooks
Local AuthorityLancashire
Number of Pupils148
Free School Meals (FSM)11.5%
School Capacity148 / 175 (85% full)

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Ofsted Inspection Breakdown

29 Oct 2024
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Quality of Education
Good
Behaviour & Attitudes
Good
Personal Development
Good
Leadership & Management
Good
Early Years Provision
Good

From September 2024, Ofsted no longer assigns a single overall grade in inspections of state-funded schools.

Source: Ofsted, 27 Nov 2024. Ratings: 1=Outstanding, 2=Good, 3=Requires Improvement, 4=Inadequate.

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St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood has been rated "Good" by Ofsted. This means the school provides a good standard of education and effectively supports all pupils to succeed.