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Tor View School

Mixed · ages 3–19 · with sixth formLancashire, North West · Rossendale BB4 6LRTrust: The Sea View TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
281of 165 places
Free school meals
41.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
32
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 26 February 2025Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Tor View Specialist Learning Community (URN 119891, until 1 January 2017).

What the data says

Of the 18 pupils who finished Year 11 at Tor View School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Tor View School’s own sixth form (Lancashire average 12%), none went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 1.8 against 46.1 across England and 45.1 in Lancashire, with 3% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

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.

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.

Tor View School
Lancashire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureTor View SchoolLancashireEngland
Pupils in the cohort1813,296607,348
Any sustained destination100%90%92%
Stayed in education100%81%86%
— school sixth form0%12%34%
— sixth form college0%20%13%
— further education college0%48%37%
— other education100%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%5%3%
Employment0%4%3%
No sustained destination0%7%6%
Destination unknown0%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

MeasureTor View SchoolLancashireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)1.845.146.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths3%44%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths3%64%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%34%41%
EBacc average point score0.183.954.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort66%26%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils0.232.734.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils4.649.350.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language6%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.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Mathematics26%88%22%
English Language13%89%20%
English Literature13%86%21%
French13%18%29%
Combined Science13%65%9%

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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.