Silver Birch School
Silver Birch School is an independent special school in Burnley for boys and girls aged 11 to 16. It has 0 pupils and room for 30.
Briercliffe Road, Harle Syke, Burnley, BB10 2HA01282 798764silverbirchschool.orgRebecca Warhurst 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 Lancashire 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compass Community School Lancashire | Independent | 510 m | 4 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Briercliffe Primary School | Council | 610 m | 388 | Report card 2026 | 21 | Compare |
| St James' Lanehead Church of England Primary School | Church of England | 640 m | 279 | Report card 2026 | 27 | Compare |
| Sir John Thursby Community College | Foundation | 0.7 miles | 1,121 | Good 2023 | 30 | Compare |
| Ridgewood Community High School | Council | 0.7 miles | 192 | Good 2023 | – | Compare |
| St John the Baptist RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Academy | 0.8 miles | 212 | Good 2024 | 44 | Compare |
| Casterton Primary Academy | Academy | 0.8 miles | 291 | Good 2022 | 74 | Compare |
| Reedley Primary School | Council | 0.9 miles | 408 | Good 2023 | 29 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Silver Birch School a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Silver Birch School yet.
How many pupils does Silver Birch School have?
0 pupils aged 11 to 16 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 30 places, so it is 0% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Briercliffe Road, Harle Syke, Burnley, BB10 2HA
- Telephone
- 01282 798764
- Website
- silverbirchschool.org
- Headteacher
- Rebecca Warhurst
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 11-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Ward
- Briercliffe
- Constituency
- Burnley
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 17 November 2025 (new provision)
- URN
- 152132 · LAESTAB 8886140
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.