United Kingdom / Regions / Blackburn with Darwen
Blackburn with Darwen
North West, England · population ~150k · 77 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 61 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Blackburn with Darwen
77 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (61 of 77 here), 95.6% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (1.3% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 77 schools.
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St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy | Secondary | 1,489 | Good· | 11/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Pleckgate High School | Secondary | 1,354 | Outstanding | 05/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Witton Park Academy | Secondary | 1,312 | Good· | 04/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Darwen Vale High School | Secondary | 1,071 | Good | 30/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy | Secondary | 1,065 | Not graded | 20/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, Blackburn | Secondary | 1,043 | Not graded | 04/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Blackburn Central High School | Secondary | 984 | Good· | 14/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School | Secondary | 875 | Good | 05/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School | Secondary | 854 | Outstanding | 11/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 812 | Requires Improvement | 16/05/2023 | Ofsted |
Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School | Secondary | 736 | Outstanding | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Olive School, Blackburn | Primary | 637 | Not graded | 04/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Lammack Primary School | Primary | 527 | Good· | 28/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy | Primary | 473 | Outstanding | 13/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary School | Primary | 459 | Good· | 29/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St James' Church of England Primary School Blackburn | Primary | 436 | Good· | 07/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Roe Lee Park Primary School | Primary | 431 | Good· | 23/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | 421 | Good | 02/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary | Primary | 418 | Not graded | 17/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Blackburn | Primary | 417 | Good· | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.