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Based on official data for academic year 2024/25.
Academic Outcomes
37
Inspection
—
Admissions Value
50
Destinations
40
Stability & Context
100
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Quality of education
Graded 9 July 2025
Behaviour and attitudes
Graded 9 July 2025
Personal development
Official Department for Education applications and offers data for Secondary Transfer in academic year 2025/26.
Academic year
2025/26
Published admission number (PAN)
150
Places offered by the school
Applications received
246
Times listed as any preference
Offers made
144
Preferred offers from this school
Oversubscription ratio
1.64×
Applications per place
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Official Department for Education attainment and outcomes data. Suppressed or unpublished figures are shown as “Not published”.
Key stage 4 (secondary) data for academic year 2024/25
Official Department for Education key stage 4 performance for academic year 2024/25. Progress 8 is not published for this academic year.
Attainment 8
36.5
Progress 8
Not published
English & maths 5+
23.6%
English & maths 4+
49.7%
EBacc entry
17.3%
BB3 3HD - Sudell Road, Darwen, Lancashire
This school is one of 142 schools in Blackburn with Darwen.
Total schools
142
Open schools
89
Closed schools
53
Primary schools
73
Dates reflect the latest GIAS import and any recorded closure date for this school.
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Graded 9 July 2025
Leadership and management
Graded 9 July 2025
Sixth form
Graded 9 July 2025
Showing the last 1 inspection on record, including monitoring visits.
Inspection
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Offer rate
58.5%
Offers as a share of applications
First preference offers: 140
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EBacc achievement
4.2%
Post-16 (A level) data for academic year 2024/25
Official Department for Education 16 to 18 performance (A level) for academic year 2024/25.
APS
25.0
Value added
-0.38
AAB %
0.0%
Retention %
Not published
Key stage 4 destinations data for leaver academic year 2022/23
Sustained destination measures for pupils who completed key stage 4 in 2022/23 (destinations in 2023/24).
Education %
80.0%
Employment %
4.0%
Apprenticeships %
3.0%
NEET %
11.0%
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Secondary schools
24
Special schools
0
Same phase (Secondary) and local authority (Blackburn with Darwen)