LEAGUE tables out today have dealt another blow to three schools created under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme.

Key Stage Three results for 2007 have Hameldon College, Shuttleworth Coll-ege and Unity College in the list for the bottom 100 schools for contextual value added (CVA) score which measures progress from Key Stage Two (age 11) to Key Stage Three (age 14).

Hameldon is 36th worst, Shuttleworth is 56th and Unity 99th.

Shuttleworth College in Padiham is also ranked the 61st worst school overall in the core subjects English, maths and science, which Key Stage Three measures.

Shuttleworth's aggregate score was 133, compared to the national average of 223.

It comes less than two months after the school was shamed for its truancy rates as well as its low CVA measure in the Key Stage Four (age 16) figures.

The three schools opened in September 2006 under the ounty council's new £250million BSF scheme, which closed 11 schools in Burnley and Pendle and created eight new ones.

County Coun Marcus Johnstone, cabinet member for children and young people, said: "The new BSF schools have done everything within their power to support the achievement of their young people and the outcomes at KS3 suggest that in most schools, results are not significantly lower and are sometimes higher than in their predecessor schools."

Sally Cryer, head of Unity College which was given a notice to improve by Ofsted in December, said they were improving.

She said: "Our results have improved significantly since the previous year in science, English, maths and ICT.

"We are the third most improved school in Lancashire for Key Stage Three results this year, and this improvement was identified in our recent Ofsted report."