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77 open schools in Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · see all Blackburn with Darwen schools · grammar schools in Blackburn

Blackburn has 77 state schools: 55 primary, 15 secondary, part of Blackburn with Darwen's wider catchment. 75 have a published Ofsted rating, and 61 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.

Al Islah Girls' High School BLACKBURN · Good Ashworth Nursery School Blackburn · Good Audley Infant School Blackburn · Good Audley Junior School Blackburn · Good Balderstone St Leonard's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Blackburn · Good Belthorn Academy Primary School Blackburn · Good Blackburn Central High School Blackburn · Good Blackburn College Blackburn · Good Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Good Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary Blackburn · Not judged Brookhouse Primary School Blackburn · Good Brunel Nursery School Blackburn · Good Cedars Primary School Blackburn · Good Daisyfield Primary School Blackburn · Good Eden School Blackburn · Good Feniscowles Primary School Blackburn · Good Great Harwood Primary School Blackburn · Good Great Harwood St Bartholomew's Parish Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Blackburn · Good Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Good Griffin Park Primary School Blackburn · Good Holy Souls Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn Blackburn · Good Intack Primary School Blackburn · Good Islamiyah School Blackburn · Outstanding Jamiatul-Ilm Wal-Huda UK School Blackburn · Good Knuzden St Oswald's Church of England Primary Academy Blackburn · Good Lammack Primary School Blackburn · Good Langho and Billington St Leonards Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Not judged Livesey Saint Francis' Church of England School Blackburn · Good Longshaw Community Junior School Blackburn · Good Longshaw Infant School Blackburn · Good Longshaw Nursery School Blackburn · Good Markazul Uloom Blackburn · Inadequate Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery BLACKBURN · Good Meadowhead Junior School Blackburn · Good Mellor St Mary Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Good Newfield School Blackburn · Not judged Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy Blackburn · Requires improvement Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn Blackburn · Good Pleckgate High School Blackburn · Outstanding Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Blackburn · Good Queen Elizabeth's Primary School Blackburn Rawdhatul Ilm Wal Huda Blackburn · Good Rawdhatul Uloom Islamic Primary School Blackburn · Good Rishton Methodist Primary School Blackburn · Good Rishton St Peter and St Paul's Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Good Roe Lee Park Primary School Blackburn · Good Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn Blackburn · Good Salesbury Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Good Shadsworth Infant School Blackburn · Not judged St Aidan's Primary School - A Church of England Academy Blackburn · Not judged St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn Blackburn · Not judged St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn Blackburn · Good St Antony's RC Primary School Blackburn · Good St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Blackburn · Good St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, Blackburn Blackburn · Not judged St Charles' Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Blackburn · Not judged St Gabriel's Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Good St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood Blackburn · Not judged St James' Church of England Primary School Blackburn Blackburn · Good St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Not judged St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Langho Blackburn · Good St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Osbaldeston Blackburn · Good St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn Blackburn · Good St Matthew's Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Good St Michael With St John CofE Primary School Blackburn · Good St Paul's Roman Catholic Primary School, Feniscowles, Blackburn Blackburn · Good St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Blackburn Blackburn · Not judged St Silas's CofE Primary School Blackburn · Good St Stephen's Church of England Primary School Blackburn · Good St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy Blackburn · Good Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School Blackburn · Outstanding Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School Blackburn · Outstanding The Hyndburn Academy Blackburn · Good The Olive School, Blackburn Blackburn · Not judged Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy Blackburn · Outstanding Westholme School Blackburn Witton Park Academy Blackburn · Good

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.

Witton Park Academy Good · ×0.31 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn Good · ×0.59 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Silas's CofE Primary School Good · ×0.62 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Knuzden St Oswald's Church of England Primary Academy Good · ×0.65 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Holy Souls Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn Good · ×0.74 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Good · ×0.75 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Blackburn Central High School Good · ×0.76 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Audley Infant School Good · ×0.8 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Brookhouse Primary School Good · ×0.8 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Michael With St John CofE Primary School Good · ×0.8 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Blackburn with Darwen

Primary schools: LA sets and reviews a catchment area annually for each primary school; priority given within the catchment boundary. (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.

Blackburn straddles a council boundary: the scheme above is Blackburn with Darwen's, and Lancashire also has schools here, applying under its own.

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
Sept 2028 Application deadline 2027-10-31
Sept 2028 Primary application deadline 2028-01-15
Sept 2028 Offer day 2028-03-01
Sept 2028 Primary offer day 2028-04-17
Sept 2027 Application deadline 2026-10-31
Sept 2027 Primary application deadline 2027-01-15
Sept 2027 Offer day 2027-03-01
Sept 2027 Primary offer day 2027-04-16
Sept 2026 Application deadline 2025-10-31 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary application deadline 2026-01-15 (passed)
Sept 2026 Offer day 2026-03-02 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary offer day 2026-04-16 (passed)

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