Austen House
Swineherd Farm, Cob Castle Road, Rossendale, BB4 5TS
This school is closed (it closed in July 2025).
- Phase
- Independent schools
- School type
- Other independent school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Headteacher
- Mr Jason Travis
- Constituency
- Hyndburn
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 5
- Pupils on roll
- 1
- URN
- 142333
- Local authority
- Lancashire
About this school
Austen House was an independent school in Rossendale. It taught children aged 11 to 18 and had 1 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Austen House has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in August 2015, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Attainment 8 score | - | - |
| Progress 8 score | - | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | - | - |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | - | - |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | - | - |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | - | - |
Trends over time
How Austen House has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 1 |
| 2023/24 | 2 |
| 2024/25 | 1 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 0%
- Pupils with an EHC plan
- 0
- Pupils on SEN support
- 0
Location
Nearby schools
-
Maple House School1.7 miles
Special schools · Manchester
-
Tor View School1.7 miles
Academies · Rossendale
-
Rawtenstall Cribden House Community Special School1.7 miles
Special schools · Rossendale
-
Belmont School1.8 miles
Special schools · Rossendale
-
Valley College1.8 miles
Other types · Rossendale
Other schools in Rossendale
- Hillside Nursery School Nursery
- Staghills Nursery School Nursery
- Crawshawbooth Primary School Primary
- Haslingden Broadway Primary School Primary
- Haslingden Primary School Primary
- Helmshore Primary School Primary
- Rawtenstall Balladen Community Primary School Primary
- Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School Primary
- St Anne's Church of England Primary School Primary
- St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall Primary
- St Mary's CofE Primary School Rawtenstall Primary
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Haslingden Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Austen House teach?
- Austen House taught children aged 11 to 18. It was an independent school in Rossendale.
- Has Austen House been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Austen House under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Austen House?
- Austen House had 1 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 18.
- What are Austen House's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Austen House's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 7 August 2025.