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Boys secondary school in Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen

Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School

Sumner Street, Blackburn, BB2 2LD

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024 Sixth form Muslim Boys
School website 01254918670
Ofsted Outstanding March 2024
Attainment 8 62.5 in the top 10% nationally
Chance of a place 49% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 1/10 more deprived

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 5 March 2024

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 5 March 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Outstanding
Last overall grade in this dataset
Outstanding
Days since inspection
941 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

62.5 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

81% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

89% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

99% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

1.26confidence interval 1.01 to 1.52

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
38.2

England average 32.3

A level students
28

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

Oversubscribed. Of the 233 families who named this school as their first choice, 49% were offered a place.

Places offered
115

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice
233
First choices per place
2.03

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
49%

England 88.5%

Demand has been broadly steady over three years.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
746
Places
800
How full
93% full — 746 of 800 places taken
Overall absence
2%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
3%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
17%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
69%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
9%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
8

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
92

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
27
Busiest road nearby
A666

19,421 vehicles a day (2005)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
17

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Blackburn Rail Station

0.8 km away — railway station

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
90%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
87%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
28%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
134

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The area around the school

1/10 Deprivation decile

Among the most deprived fifth of England.

1/10 Child poverty decile

Among the most deprived fifth of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£120,000

postcode sector BB2 2 · 136 sales

Typical range
£90,000 to £151,750

middle half of sales

Semi-detached
£174,500
Terraced
£109,975

Homes around this school are among the cheapest tenth of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
16%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
38%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
5%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
36%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
45%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
6%

England 62.7%

Social housing
74%

England 17%

Privately rented
20%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
17%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
15%

England 22.5%

No car
65%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Blackburn with Darwen 006E and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Free schools
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Muslim
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Principal & Chief Executive: Majid Ditta
Opened as this establishment
28 August 2012
Register status
Open
Local authority
Blackburn with Darwen
Ward
Blackburn Central
Constituency
Blackburn
URN
138220

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Year 7

2.30 2014/15: 1.53 first choices per place2015/16: 1.43 first choices per place2016/17: 1.50 first choices per place2017/18: 1.46 first choices per place2018/19: 1.77 first choices per place2019/20: 2.06 first choices per place2020/21: 2.02 first choices per place2021/22: 2.08 first choices per place2022/23: 1.90 first choices per place2023/24: 2.13 first choices per place2024/25: 2.00 first choices per place2025/26: 1.96 first choices per place2026/27: 2.03 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 97 148 1.53 60%
2015/16 116 166 1.43 62%
2016/17 118 177 1.50 57%
2017/18 118 172 1.46 66%
2018/19 124 220 1.77 54%
2019/20 121 249 2.06 47%
2020/21 120 242 2.02 50%
2021/22 119 247 2.08 47%
2022/23 118 224 1.90 51%
2023/24 117 249 2.13 46%
2024/25 115 230 2.00 50%
2025/26 118 231 1.96 51%
2026/27 115 233 2.03 49%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8DistanceCompare
St Wilfrid's Church of England AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 50.8 0.190.01 to 0.36 0.2 mi
Markazul UloomOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.7 mi
Noorul UloomOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.7 mi
Blackburn Central High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 41 -0.20-0.42 to 0.03 · not a win 0.8 mi
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolFree schools No overall grade 47 -0.22-0.47 to 0.03 · not a win 0.8 mi
Al Islah Girls' High SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.9 mi
Witton Park AcademyAcademy converter Report card 2026 40.3 -0.70-0.90 to -0.50 0.9 mi
Tauheedul Islam Girls' High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 72.3 2.051.80 to 2.30 1.3 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 62.5
Median of its 12 closest peers 62.3
Blackburn with Darwen average 46.2
England average 47

Attainment 8 score. This school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8Compare
St Mark's Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Hounslow Outstanding 2022 62.5 1.351.14 to 1.56
The Sacred Heart Language CollegeAcademy converter Harrow No overall grade 57.9 0.560.34 to 0.79
Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College SouthamptonVoluntary aided school Southampton Outstanding 2023 60 0.820.62 to 1.02
Guru Nanak Sikh AcademyAcademy converter Hayes Good 2023 49.9 0.440.22 to 0.65
Sacred Heart High SchoolAcademy converter London Outstanding 2023 60.9 0.780.58 to 0.98
Woodford County High SchoolCommunity school Woodford Green Good 2022 80.1 0.790.57 to 1.00
Parkside Community CollegeAcademy converter Cambridge Outstanding 2023 63.5 0.800.52 to 1.08
The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC SchoolAcademy converter London Report card 2026 67.2 1.000.75 to 1.25
The London Oratory SchoolAcademy converter London Outstanding 2022 62.3 0.620.41 to 0.83
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Mansfield Good 2022 51.6 0.370.16 to 0.58
Wembley High Technology CollegeAcademy converter North Wembley Outstanding 2022 63.5 1.431.23 to 1.62
The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school Greenford Outstanding 2024 58.4 0.830.66 to 0.99

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 138220; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 5 March 2024
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Progress 8DfE performance tables2023/24Exact URN; confidence interval retained
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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