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47 open schools · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · best primary schools · best secondary schools

Blackpool has 44 state schools: 30 primary, 6 secondary, 2 all-through. Between them they teach around 19,371 pupils. 37 have enough published data for a score, averaging 3.6 out of 10.

6 have a sixth form. 23 take children from age three or under. 14 have a religious character, which usually means the school sets its own admissions criteria rather than the council's. How the score works.

Good or better
30
of 34 rated
Average score
3.6
out of 10

Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

Revoe Learning Academy Good · ×0.82 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Hawes Side Academy Good · ×0.88 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Thames Primary Academy Good · ×0.88 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Layton Primary School Outstanding · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Norbreck Primary Academy Good · ×0.92 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Montgomery Academy Good · ×0.94 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Teresa's Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.95 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Mereside Primary Academy Good · ×0.96 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Our Lady of The Assumption Catholic Primary School, Blackpool Good · ×0.96 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Blackpool

Primary schools: Explicit: 'The council's admission policy does not include catchment areas or feeder schools' — pure home-to-school distance. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Anchorsholme Primary Academy Thornton-Cleveleys · Not judged Armfield Academy Blackpool · Good BFC School Blackpool · Good Baines' Endowed Church of England Primary Academy Blackpool · Not judged Bispham Endowed Church of England Primary School Blackpool Blackpool Aspire Academy Blackpool · Requires improvement Blackpool Gateway Academy Blackpool Blackpool St John's Church of England Primary School Blackpool · Not judged Blackpool St Nicholas CofE Primary School Blackpool Blackpool and the Fylde College Blackpool · Good Boundary Primary School Blackpool · Good Christ The King Catholic Academy Blackpool · Good Devonshire Primary Academy Blackpool · Not judged Hawes Side Academy Blackpool · Good Highfield Leadership Academy Blackpool · Requires improvement Highfurlong School Blackpool · Outstanding Holy Family Catholic Primary School Blackpool · Good Kincraig Primary School Blackpool · Good Lancashire Alternative Provision Blackpool Layton Primary School Blackpool · Outstanding Marton Primary Academy and Nursery Blackpool · Good Mereside Primary Academy Blackpool · Good Montgomery Academy Blackpool · Good Moor Park Primary School Blackpool · Good Norbreck Primary Academy Thornton-Cleveleys · Good Our Lady of The Assumption Catholic Primary School, Blackpool Blackpool · Good Park Community Academy Blackpool · Outstanding Revoe Learning Academy Blackpool · Good Roseacre Primary Academy Blackpool · Good South Shore Academy Blackpool · Inadequate St Cuthbert's Catholic Academy Blackpool · Good St George's School A Church of England Academy Blackpool · Good St John Vianney's Catholic Primary School, Blackpool Blackpool · Good St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School Blackpool · Good St Mary's Catholic Academy Blackpool · Good St Teresa's Catholic Primary School Thornton-Cleveleys · Good St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary School Blackpool · Good Stanley Primary School Blackpool · Good Thames Primary Academy Blackpool · Good The Blackpool Sixth Form College Blackpool · Good The Maple School Blackpool · Inadequate Tower Learning Centre Independent School · Good Unity Academy Blackpool Blackpool · Not judged Waterloo Primary Academy Blackpool Westcliff Primary Academy Blackpool · Good Westminster Primary Academy Blackpool Woodlands School Blackpool · Good

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Thornton-Cleveleys 12 schools

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
Sept 2028 Application deadline 31 October 2027
Sept 2028 Primary application deadline 15 January 2028
Sept 2028 Offer day 1 March 2028
Sept 2028 Primary offer day 17 April 2028
Sept 2027 Application deadline 31 October 2026
Sept 2027 Primary application deadline 15 January 2027
Sept 2027 Offer day 1 March 2027
Sept 2027 Primary offer day 16 April 2027
Sept 2026 Application deadline 31 October 2025 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary application deadline 15 January 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026 Offer day 2 March 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary offer day 16 April 2026 (passed)

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