Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Blackburn with Darwen
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry521 applications · 207 places offered · 262 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.5; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.5
- 2025 2.6; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.4
- 2024 2.8; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.5
- 2023 2.5; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.2
- 2022 2.6; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.1
- 2021 2.4; Blackburn with Darwen median median 1.8
- 2020 2.4; Blackburn with Darwen median median 1.9
- 2019 2.2; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.2
- 2018 2.2; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.2
- 2017 2.1; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.2
- 2016 2.3; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.3
- 2015 1.9; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.4
- 2014 2.5; Blackburn with Darwen median median 2.9
- This school
- Blackburn with Darwen median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, 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 | 207 | 521 | 2.5 | 262 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2025 | 203 | 533 | 2.6 | 238 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2024 | 204 | 569 | 2.8 | 264 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2023 | 204 | 517 | 2.5 | 245 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2022 | 205 | 530 | 2.6 | 249 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2021 | 201 | 480 | 2.4 | 317 | 1.58 |
| Sep 2020 | 204 | 497 | 2.4 | 282 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2019 | 205 | 444 | 2.2 | 243 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2018 | 200 | 429 | 2.2 | 244 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2017 | 209 | 428 | 2.1 | 235 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2016 | 208 | 467 | 2.3 | 264 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2015 | 205 | 380 | 1.9 | 214 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2014 | 193 | 483 | 2.5 | 242 | 1.25 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 206 | 45.4 | 52% | 71% | – |
| 2024/25 | 202 | 47.4 | 54% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 216 | 44.1 | 42% | 64% | −0.25 |
| 2022/23 | 207 | 46.5 | 47% | 73% | −0.12 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, BlackburnThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · Blackburn with Darwen20261.8applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Blackburn with DarwenRemains Good20233.5applications per place 49.8Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · Blackburn with DarwenOutstanding20243.1applications per place 62.6Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · Blackburn with DarwenOutstanding20223.4applications per place 68.7Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · Blackburn with DarwenSome aspects not as strong20253.3applications per place 44.3Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · Blackburn with DarwenRemains Good20221.8applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · Blackburn with DarwenGood20242.3applications per place 39.0Attainment 8
- 4.5 km · Blackburn with DarwenRequires improvement20231.3applications per place 36.6Attainment 8
- 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
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 119793 · 889/4632
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,050 pupils · 1,051 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- Green Lane, Blackburn, BB2 4SR
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources