North West
Secondary schools in Blackburn with Darwen
85 schools, 29,386 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 46.2.
Ofsted across Blackburn with Darwen
Good33
Outstanding4
Requires improvement2
No overall grade46
39 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 46 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Blackburn with Darwen
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tauheedul Islam Girls' High SchoolAcademy converter | Blackburn | Outstanding 2022 | 72.3 |
| Tauheedul Islam Boys' High SchoolFree schools | Blackburn | Outstanding 2024 | 62.5 |
| St Wilfrid's Church of England AcademyAcademy converter | Blackburn | Good 2023 | 50.8 |
| Pleckgate High SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Blackburn | Outstanding 2024 | 49.2 |
| St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, BlackburnVoluntary aided school | Blackburn | No grade | 47.4 |
| Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolFree schools | Blackburn | No grade | 47 |
| Darwen Vale High SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Darwen | Good 2024 | 43.1 |
| Blackburn Central High SchoolAcademy converter | Blackburn | Good 2022 | 41 |
| Witton Park AcademyAcademy converter | Blackburn | No grade | 40.3 |
| Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Blackburn | Requires improvement 2023 | 37.2 |
| Darwen Aldridge Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Darwen | No grade | 36.5 |
| Darwen Aldridge Enterprise StudioStudio schools | Darwen | No grade | 34.7 |