Moorland School Limited
Moorland School Limited is an independent school in Clitheroe for boys and girls aged 4 to 11. It has 220 pupils and room for 279.
Ribblesdale Avenue, Clitheroe, BB7 2JA01200 423833moorlandschool.co.ukMrs Ashleigh Brotherton headteacherAll details
Inspection
This private school is inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate, not Ofsted. Its reports are at isi.net.
Results
GCSE results, summer 2024
35 pupils sat their GCSEs. Here is how they did against every state secondary in England.
All GCSE measures, year by year
| Measure | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of Year 11 | 35 | 21 | 28 | 34 | 27 | 27 | – | – |
| Average GCSE scoreAttainment 8 | 30.7 | 34.1 | 44.9 | 41.2 | 35.0 | 25.7 | 45.9 | 46.8 |
| Strong pass in English and mathsGrade 5+ in English and maths | 31% | 33% | 46% | 32% | 30% | 0% | 45% | 47% |
| Standard pass in English and mathsGrade 4+ in English and maths | 60% | 52% | 86% | 65% | 52% | 0% | 65% | 66% |
| Core subjects scoreEBacc average point score | 2.54 | 2.69 | 3.98 | 2.83 | 2.72 | – | 4.02 | 4.15 |
| Taking the core subjectsEBacc entry | 11% | 5% | 25% | 6% | 15% | 0% | 36% | 41% |
A level and sixth-form results, 2023
12 students finished sixth-form courses.
All sixth-form measures, year by year
| Measure | 2023 | 2022 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students | 12 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 33 | 16 |
| A level progressA level value added | – | – | -0.20 | – | +0.21 | +0.04 |
Does every child do well here?
A good school does well by every child, not just on average. Each row compares two groups of pupils here. The grey marks show the same two groups across England. None of the gaps is smaller than the gap across England. When a group has fewer than about ten pupils, its figures jump around a lot from year to year.
At GCSE, 2024
Low-income means the child has had free school meals at some point in the last six years. A group's figure isn't published when it has fewer than six pupils.
Getting a place
Open to all. There is no entrance test.
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 Lancashire council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 220 | 134 | 144 | 169 | 163 | 253 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | – | – | – | – | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | – | – | – | – | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 11% | 15% | 15% | 20% | 7% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 2% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% |
What pupils do next
After sixth form
Where the 10 pupils who left in 2021/22 were a year later.
Earlier years
| Destination | 2021/22 leavers | 2020/21 leavers |
|---|---|---|
| Still in education, work or training | 50% | 60% |
| Education | 40% | 33% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 0% |
| Work | 10% | 27% |
| Not in education, work or training | 0% | 7% |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clitheroe Pendle Primary School | Council | 640 m | 349 | Good 2024 | 79 | Compare |
| Clitheroe Royal Grammar School | Academy (grammar) | 840 m | 1,496 | Outstanding 2022 | 98 | Compare |
| Clitheroe Brookside Primary School | Council | 0.7 miles | 87 | Report card 2026 | 4 | Compare |
| St Michael and St John's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Academy | 0.8 miles | 133 | Good 2023 | – | Compare |
| Waddington and West Bradford Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Church of England | 0.9 miles | 200 | Good 2023 | 48 | Compare |
| Ribblesdale Nursery School | Local authority nursery school | 1.0 miles | 60 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| St James' Church of England Primary School, Clitheroe | Church of England | 1.0 miles | 262 | Not inspected | 21 | Compare |
| Ribblesdale School | Council | 1.1 miles | 1,437 | No overall grade 2025 | 44 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Moorland School Limited a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Moorland School Limited yet.
How good are Moorland School Limited's GCSE results?
In summer 2024, 31% of pupils got a grade 5 or better in both English and maths. Across England it was 47%. Its Attainment 8 score, which is the average grade across a pupil's best eight subjects times ten, was 30.7, against 46.8 for England.
How many pupils does Moorland School Limited have?
220 pupils aged 4 to 11 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 279 places, so it is 79% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Ribblesdale Avenue, Clitheroe, BB7 2JA
- Telephone
- 01200 423833
- Website
- moorlandschool.co.uk
- Headteacher
- Mrs Ashleigh Brotherton
- Type of school
- Independent school (Other independent school, independent schools)
- Phase
- Independent school, ages 4-11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Ward
- St Mary's
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 January 1952
- URN
- 119820 · LAESTAB 8886002 · UKPRN 10016606
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.
- GCSE results: DfE key stage 4 performance tables, 2023/24 final.
- 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.