United Kingdom / Regions / Blackpool
Blackpool
North West, England · population ~138k · 43 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
State-funded schools in Blackpool
43 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 (36 of 43 here), 83.1% 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.
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 43 schools.
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Armfield Academy | Secondary | 1,215 | Good | 07/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Mary's Catholic Academy | Secondary | 1,184 | Good | 10/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Montgomery Academy | Secondary | 1,174 | Good | 22/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St George's School A Church of England Academy | Secondary | 1,032 | Not graded | 26/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Unity Academy Blackpool | Secondary | 946 | Not graded | 10/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Blackpool Aspire Academy | Secondary | 835 | Requires Improvement | 05/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Highfield Leadership Academy | Secondary | 681 | Requires Improvement | 12/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Layton Primary School | Primary | 619 | Outstanding· | 12/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Waterloo Primary Academy | Primary | 610 | Requires Improvement | 21/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Anchorsholme Primary Academy | Primary | 604 | Good· | 08/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Norbreck Primary Academy | Primary | 589 | Not graded | 19/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Stanley Primary School | Primary | 584 | Good· | 16/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
South Shore Academy | Secondary | 576 | Inadequate | 27/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Roseacre Primary Academy | Primary | 560 | Good· | 11/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Baines' Endowed Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | 510 | Good· | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School, Blackpool | Primary | 458 | Good | 21/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Devonshire Primary Academy | Primary | 455 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Thames Primary Academy | Primary | 451 | Good· | 07/12/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Boundary Primary School | Primary | 445 | Good· | 05/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Revoe Learning Academy | Primary | 442 | Good | 09/07/2024 | 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.