Eden Boys' School, Bolton
Secondary · Free schools · Boys · Bolton
Wolfenden Street, Bolton, BL1 3QE
69
headline score
Ranking (England)
—
No ranked results
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding
No graded inspection
Application demand
51%
1st preference success · Oversubscribed
Attendance
95.4%
11.2% persistently absent
At a glance
Pupils on roll
621
Capacity used
Has space78%
800 places
GCSE rank (England)
—
KS2 rank (England)
—
Application demand
Secondary entry · official council applications and offers
51%
1st preference success rate
115 of 224 families who put it first got an offer
121
Places offered
377
Total applications
3.1
Applications per place
| Preference (Sept 2025 entry) | Applications | Offers | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st preference | 224 | 115 | ● 51% |
| 2nd preference | 98 | 6 | ● 6% |
| 3rd preference | 55 | 0 | ● 0% |
| Total | 377 | 121 | 32% |
1st preference success by year
Bolton lets families list 3 preferences. 11 applications came from outside the council area (0 offered). Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Offers are made on each school's admissions criteria (e.g. siblings, distance, faith), so check the school's policy.
Details
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Boys
- Religious character
- Muslim
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Headteacher
- Kasim Qadir
- Address
- Wolfenden Street, Bolton, BL1 3QE
- Phone
- 01204849240
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Ward / constituency
- Halliwell · Bolton North East
- Area
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- URN
- 140959
Pupils
| Measure | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free school meals | 34% | — | — |
| English as additional language | 66% | — | — |
| SEN support | 9% | — | — |
Local deprivation (IDACI quintile 5 of 5)
1 = least deprived area, 5 = most deprived. Context only.
Academy trust: STAR ACADEMIES
621 pupils · 800 places. Intake figures describe the school's community — they aren't good or bad.
Ofsted inspections
- 23
04 July 2023
Ungraded inspection
School remains Outstanding
Attendance
2024/2025 school year · 633 pupils
Attendance
95.4%
Share of sessions attended · England 91.1%
Overall absence
4.6%
Sessions missed, any reason · England 8.9%
Persistent absence
11.2%
Pupils missing 10%+ of school · England 26.7%
Severe absence
0.3%
Pupils missing 50%+ of school · England 2.3%
Unauthorised absence
1.5%
Absences the school didn't approve
Persistent absence by year
Source: Department for Education, pupil absence by school (pupils aged 5–15). Lower absence is better. England figures are approximate 2023/24 averages.
GCSE results
| Measure | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 score | 48.4 | — | — |
| Progress 8 score | 0.45 | — | 0.00 |
| Grade 5+ in English & maths | 54% | — | — |
| Grade 4+ in English & maths | 72% | — | — |
| EBacc average point score | 4.55 | — | — |
Progress 8 band
GCSE results over time
Attainment 8 by year (2020 and 2021 exams were cancelled)
| Result | School | England (approx.) |
|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 53 | 46 |
| Grade 5+ English & maths | 58.5% | 46% |
| Grade 4+ English & maths | 80.5% | 65% |
| Entering EBacc | 84.6% | 40% |
| EBacc average point score | 5.02 | 4.1 |
| Pupils in cohort | 123 | — |
How different pupils progress (GCSE, 2023/2024)
Progress 8 by group. 0 is the national average; above 0 means pupils do better than similar children elsewhere.
Oxbridge
No Cambridge applications recorded for this school in 2020–2025.
House prices near the school
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Source: Get Information About Schools and the DfE school and college performance tables (2023-2024); Oxbridge figures from the University of Cambridge's admissions by UCAS apply centre (Oxford doesn't publish per-school figures). Read the method.