Rossendale Ranks High in Top Schools and Afforable Property List

Rossendale’s Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School ranked 9th in the country following new research.

Online estate agent eMoov analysed house prices and the average GCSE scores in the top 50 state secondary schools in England.

The top performing state school with the best value property nearby is the Heckmondwike Grammar School in Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
Rossendale came 9th with the performance of Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar school and the best value property near by.

The full top 10 state schools with the lowest property prices for GCSE results are;

1. Heckmondwike Grammar School, Kirklees
2. Handsworth School, Birmingham
3. The Blue Coat School, Liverpool
4. King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham
5. The North Halifax Grammar School, Halifax
6. Devonport High School for Girls, Plymouth
7. Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall
8. Kind Edward VI Aston School, Birmingham
9. Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Rossendale
10. Lancaster Girls Grammar School, Lancaster

This new research comes after Rossendale was ranked in the top 20% of socially mobile places to grow up, coming 57th out of all 324 Local Authority areas.

Further information

• Rossendale Ranked as a Social Mobility Hotspot