Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Blackburn with Darwen
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Early years provision | Requires improvement |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry27 applications · 4 places offered · 4 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 6.8; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.3
- 2025 3.8; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.4
- 2024 4.7; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.5
- 2023 3.2; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.3
- 2022 1.9; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.2
- 2021 1.8; Blackburn with Darwen median median 1.9
- 2020 1.6; Blackburn with Darwen median median 1.8
- 2019 3.0; Blackburn with Darwen median median 1.9
- 2018 3.8; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.0
- 2017 2.6; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.0
- 2016 2.2; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.0
- 2015 1.7; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.0
- 2014 3.5; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.4
- This school
- Blackburn with Darwen median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 4 | 27 | 6.8 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 6 | 23 | 3.8 | 6 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 7 | 33 | 4.7 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 13 | 42 | 3.2 | 13 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 15 | 28 | 1.9 | 14 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2021 | 11 | 20 | 1.8 | 12 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2020 | 11 | 17 | 1.6 | 10 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2019 | 8 | 24 | 3.0 | 7 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2018 | 8 | 30 | 3.8 | 9 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2017 | 18 | 46 | 2.6 | 17 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2016 | 30 | 65 | 2.2 | 24 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2015 | 36 | 62 | 1.7 | 28 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2014 | 17 | 60 | 3.5 | 17 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 76% · Writing 76% · Maths 67% → all three 62% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Blackburn with Darwen median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 62% | 10% | 107 | 103 |
| 2023/24 | 29% | 4% | 103 | 102 |
| 2022/23 | 48% | 7% | 104 | 101 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Holy Trinity VC SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20256.8applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · Blackburn with DarwenStandards maintained20252.6applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · Blackburn with DarwenGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 37%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · Blackburn with Darwen20261.7applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · Blackburn with Darwen20262.1applications per place 43%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Blackburn with DarwenRemains Good20231.5applications per place 72%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · Blackburn with DarwenRemains Good20232.6applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · Blackburn with DarwenRequires improvement20244.1applications per place 38%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · Blackburn with DarwenRemains Good20233.1applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 119357 · 889/3005
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 420 pupils · 119 on roll
- Free school meals
- 47.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- Bank Top, Darwen, BB3 2RW
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources