EdStart Schools Bolton
EdStart Schools Bolton is an independent special school in Bolton for boys and girls aged 11 to 16. It has 62 pupils and room for 83.
Castle Hill Young Peoples Centre, Castleton Street, Off Tongue Moor Road, Bolton, BL2 2JW0300 303 4414edstartschools.comMr James Bradley headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet. That is normal for a school that opened in 2025: new schools usually get their first inspection within three years.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Bolton council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton Parish Church, Church of England Primary School | Academy | 560 m | 252 | Good 2021 | 35 | Compare |
| Birtenshaw College | Special post 16 institution | 800 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Bolton Islamic Girls School | Independent (grammar) | 800 m | 115 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| St Peter and St Paul RC Primary School a Voluntary Academy | Academy | 820 m | 225 | Good 2020 | – | Compare |
| University of Greater Manchester | Higher education institutions | 950 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Bolton Sixth Form College | Further education | 960 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| St Stephen and All Martyrs' CofE School, Lever Bridge | Church of England | 0.6 miles | 193 | Good 2023 | 57 | Compare |
| Clarendon Primary School | Council | 0.7 miles | 454 | Not inspected | 63 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is EdStart Schools Bolton a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score EdStart Schools Bolton yet.
How many pupils does EdStart Schools Bolton have?
62 pupils aged 11 to 16 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 83 places, so it is 75% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Castle Hill Young Peoples Centre, Castleton Street, Off Tongue Moor Road, Bolton, BL2 2JW
- Telephone
- 0300 303 4414
- Website
- www.edstartschools.com
- Headteacher
- Mr James Bradley
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 11-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Ward
- Tonge with the Haulgh
- Constituency
- Bolton North East
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 25 September 2025 (new provision)
- URN
- 152052 · LAESTAB 3506023
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.