Secondary
Blackburn Central High School
Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HJ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1015 of 900 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.0
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Trust
- OAK LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 64.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 115.6
- Pupils per adult
- 8.3
- Pupils
- 960
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected December 2022
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
35%
13 points below the Blackburn average (48% across 10 schools)
41.0
7.5 below the Blackburn average (48.5 across 10 schools)
7th of 10 by our score, among the secondary schools in Blackburn we can score - see them all. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 41 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.82 |
| Entered the EBacc | 55% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 56% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 35% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 40% |
| 22/23 | 34% |
| 23/24 | 37% |
| 24/25 | 35% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.04 |
| 22/23 | -0.48 |
| 23/24 | -0.20 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 44.4 |
| 22/23 | 40.5 |
| 23/24 | 41.2 |
| 24/25 | 41.0 |
Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HJ
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Blackburn with Darwen admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Nicola Power
- Address
- Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HJ
- Telephone
- 01254505700