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The school community at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (BRGS) is enjoying amazing academic success in its first set of GCSE results since joining Star Academies in September 2023. 96% of the school’s pupils achieved grades 9-5 in English and Maths – more than...
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BRGS is a designated grammar school primarily for children who attend primary schools in Bacup, Rawtenstall and the surrounding areas. As a grammar school, our entire intake is selected on the basis of high academic ability.
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (BRGS) is a selective co-educational academy grammar school in Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancashire, England. The school is named after the two main towns either side of Waterfoot, Bacup and Rawtenstall.
Our school operates a seven-year curriculum journey, from Year 7 to Year 13. All pupils will follow a traditional model of study, which involves core and foundation subjects. All pupils will follow a combination of subjects which will enable them to achieve the English Baccalaureate.
- Main School Building
- Temporary Construction
- Extensions
- Conquest of Waterfoot
As every year 7 student at BRGS learns in their earliest history lessons, BRGS was founded at its current site in 1912, opening to its first intake in 1913, when the Newchurch Grammar School moved. It was built at a cost of £30,000 and was made to house 362 students, with rooms for teaching trades such as weaving, spinning, plumbing and boot and sh...
The school also plays host to a number of Temporary Classrooms, such as rooms 57 and 58 - the so called "English Block", which used to be music rooms (in the late 1960s). A new set of six Temporary Classrooms, T 1-6, now occupy old car parking areas, and are projected by some estimates to have a shelf life of about a century, but are expected to su...
Permanent construction additions to the school have included the Extension Corridor, which has been the starting point for a number of new extensions, and leads now to the Newchurch Wing, construction finishing at the back end of 1999. The Art Block, completed in 1996, is now too small; the area where it began (currently the Music Department) is al...
The school is currently extending the Sports Hall into the wasteland just beyond the perimeter fence, building a block of classrooms right outside the houses on Mount Avenue. It also plans to build a Music and Artblock on the site Waterfoot Primary currently occupies. The new plans for the joint primary school for Waterfoot and Cloughfold has began...
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School is a selective academy. It has about 900 boys and girls aged between 11 and 18. Ofsted last inspected the school in June 2022. The present school opened in 2023.
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Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. URN: 150261. Address: Glen Road, Rossendale, BB4 7BJ. STAR ACADEMIES. No report yet – why? There may not be a report because: a newly registered...
