The Valley Leadership Academy
Fearns Moss, Bacup, OL13 0TG
Data last updated 22 October 2026.
- Phase: Secondary
- Gender: Mixed
- Ages: 11 to 16
- Admissions: Not published
- Sixth form: No
- Pupils (2025/26 census): 578 (288 boys, 290 girls)
- Capacity: 1050
- Free school meals (2025/26 census): 41.9%
- Telephone: 01706873896
- Ofsted: Requires improvement (19 Sep 2023); report card, no overall grade (inspected 21 Apr 2026)
- Attainment 8: 34.3 (2025/26, provisional)
- Applications (Year 7 entry, September 2026): 105 applications, 104 places offered
Phase, type, gender, ages, admissions, sixth form, capacity and contact details are from the Department for Education's school register as at 21 October 2026. Ofsted inspection records as at 30 September 2026.
Other schools in Lancashire
- Waterfoot Primary School (0.3 miles, straight line)
- Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (0.4 miles, straight line)
- St Anne's Church of England Primary School (0.6 miles, straight line)
- Bacup Holy Trinity Stacksteads Church of England Primary School (0.7 miles, straight line)
- Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School (0.7 miles, straight line)
- St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch (0.7 miles, straight line)
