Non-maintained special school

Birtenshaw School Bolton

Mixed · ages 3–19 · with sixth formBolton, North West · Bolton BL7 9ABSchool website
Pupils on roll
137of 140 places
Free school meals
9.4%
Year 11 cohort 2025
9
Ofsted
School remains Good, 18 November 2022Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

The Department for Education has not published where Birtenshaw School Bolton’s Year 11 leavers went next (the cohort is too small to report), so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Bolton and England.

The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Where Birtenshaw School Bolton is

Other secondary schools in Bolton are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Bolton’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Bolton

Canon Slade School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,724 pupils

91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.9

Essa Academy

Academy sponsor led · 1,055 pupils

91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.0

Harper Green School

Academy converter · 1,070 pupils

77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.8

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.