Academy@Worden
Academy converter · 660 pupils
74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2
Community special school
Pendle Community High School & College
- Pupils on roll
- 166of 136 places
- Free school meals
- 54.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 27
- Ofsted
- School remains Outstanding, 21 March 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Colne Gibfield School (URN 119881).
What the data says
Of the 25 pupils who finished Year 11 at Pendle Community High School & College in 2023, 0% stayed on in Pendle Community High School & College’s own sixth form (Lancashire average 12%), 8% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
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 Lancashire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 25 | 13,296 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 100% | 90% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 100% | 81% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 12% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 20% | 13% |
| — further education college | 8% | 48% | 37% |
| — other education | 92% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 5% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 4% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 2% | 3% |
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
| Measure | This school | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 0.9 | 45.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 44% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 64% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 34% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.07 | 3.95 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 59% | 26% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 1.5 | 32.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 0.0 | 49.3 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 37% | 12% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 5 | 19% | 88% | — | 22% | — |
Other secondary schools in Lancashire
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79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.4
Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School
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85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.7
Albany Academy
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76% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.7
Alder Grange School
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82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.0
All Hallows Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school · 911 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.6
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.