Report card · inspected Nov 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther primary schools in Blackburn with Darwen
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Strong standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Expected standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Expected standard | ||||
| Early years | Expected standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
Inspection history
- 11 November 2025Report card · 1 Strong standard, 6 Expected standard
- 8 February 2022Graded inspection: Good
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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 entry37 applications · 17 places offered · 10 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.2; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.3
- 2025 2.0; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.4
- 2024 2.9; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.5
- 2023 1.9; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.3
- 2022 1.5; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.2
- 2021 1.4; Blackburn with Darwen median median 1.9
- 2020 1.4; Blackburn with Darwen median median 1.8
- 2019 1.5; Blackburn with Darwen median median 1.9
- 2018 1.3; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.0
- 2017 2.1; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.0
- 2016 1.9; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.0
- 2015 1.7; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.0
- 2014 4.1; 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 | 17 | 37 | 2.2 | 10 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2025 | 20 | 39 | 2.0 | 12 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2024 | 13 | 37 | 2.9 | 10 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2023 | 13 | 24 | 1.9 | 9 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2022 | 20 | 30 | 1.5 | 12 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2021 | 16 | 23 | 1.4 | 9 | 0.56 |
| Sep 2020 | 18 | 26 | 1.4 | 6 | 0.33 |
| Sep 2019 | 14 | 21 | 1.5 | 7 | 0.50 |
| Sep 2018 | 21 | 28 | 1.3 | 15 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2017 | 23 | 49 | 2.1 | 13 | 0.57 |
| Sep 2016 | 26 | 50 | 1.9 | 14 | 0.54 |
| Sep 2015 | 22 | 37 | 1.7 | 10 | 0.45 |
| Sep 2014 | 14 | 58 | 4.1 | 7 | 0.50 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 73% · Writing 80% · Maths 63% → all three 60% 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 | 60% | 10% | 104 | 102 |
| 2023/24 | 43% | 3% | 100 | 101 |
| 2022/23 | 52% | 3% | 102 | 102 |
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
- Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnThis schoolThis school20252.2applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 0.1 km · Blackburn with DarwenGood20233.1applications per place 59%met the SATs standard
- 0.5 km · Blackburn with Darwen20262.4applications per place 45%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · Blackburn with DarwenOutstanding20233.3applications per place 83%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · Blackburn with DarwenGraded · no overall grade20253.2applications per place 98%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · Blackburn with DarwenGood20242.1applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · Blackburn with Darwen20261.9applications per place 59%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · Blackburn with DarwenRemains Good20222.4applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · Blackburn with Darwen20261.9applications per place 75%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 aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 119510 · 889/3500
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 173 on roll
- Free school meals
- 26.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- Lynwood Road, Blackburn, BB2 6HQ
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources