Shuttleworth College
Shuttleworth College is a mixed local-authority maintained secondary school in Burnley, Lancashire County Council, teaching 1,072 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted graded quality of education as Requires improvement at its most recent inspection in March 2025. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 39.5 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 5 January 2026 to 13 April 2026.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Shuttleworth College.
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Shuttleworth College.
- 1 Inset Day
- 2 College Re-opens to Students
- 26 Inset Day
- 27–31 Autumn Half Term
- 28 Inset Day
- 1 Inset Day
- 19 College Closes for Christmas
- 22–31 Christmas Holiday
- 25 Christmas Day
- 26 Boxing Day
- 1–2 Christmas Holiday
- 1 New Year's Day
- 5 College Re-opens - Spring Term Begins
- 16–20 Spring Half Term
- 27 College Closes for Easter
- 30–31 Easter Holiday
- 1–10 Easter Holiday
- 3 Good Friday
- 6 Easter Monday
- 13 College Re-opens - Summer Term Begins
- 4 May Bank Holiday
- 4 Early May Bank Holiday
- 25–29 Summer Half Term
- 25 Spring Bank Holiday
- 17 College Closes for Summer
- 20 Inset Day
- 20–31 Summer Holiday
- 1–31 Summer Holiday
- 31 Summer Bank Holiday
Key dates (2025–2026)
- Inset Day Sep 1, 2025 Inset Day
- College Re-opens to Students Sep 2, 2025 Event
- Inset Day Sep 26, 2025 Inset Day
- Autumn Half Term Oct 27-31, 2025 Holiday
- Inset Day Nov 28, 2025 Inset Day
- Inset Day Dec 1, 2025 Inset Day
- College Closes for Christmas Dec 19, 2025 Holiday
- College Re-opens - Spring Term Begins Jan 5, 2026 Term
- Spring Half Term Feb 16-20, 2026 Holiday
- College Closes for Easter Mar 27, 2026 Holiday
- College Re-opens - Summer Term Begins Apr 13, 2026 Term
- May Bank Holiday May 4, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Half Term May 25-29, 2026 Holiday
- College Closes for Summer Jul 17, 2026 Event
- Inset Day Jul 20, 2026 Inset Day
- Christmas Holiday Dec 22, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday Mar 30 - Apr 10, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Holiday Jul 20 - Aug 31, 2026 Holiday
- New Year's Day Jan 1, 2026 Event
- Good Friday Apr 3, 2026 Event
- Easter Monday Apr 6, 2026 Holiday
- Early May Bank Holiday May 4, 2026 Holiday
- Spring Bank Holiday May 25, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Bank Holiday Aug 31, 2026 Holiday
- Christmas Day Dec 25, 2025 Holiday
- Boxing Day Dec 26, 2025 Event
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Shuttleworth College with Lancashire County Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 39.5 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school Lancashire County Council England
Attendance 34.8% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Lancashire County Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 76% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school Lancashire County Council England
About this data source & caveats
Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.
We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.
Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Shuttleworth College. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.
Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Location & catchment area
Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Shuttleworth College than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.