St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn
Primary · Blackburn · BB1 5BN
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 15 September 2021
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
154 pupils · 73% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 46% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 41.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.7% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 119706
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.84 first-choice applications per place19 places offered · 16 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
30 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 24 September 2024: Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1
- 8 November 2022: Requires improvement
- 14 September 2021: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 7 July 2016: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Michael With St John CofE Primary School
- Daisyfield Primary School
- Brookhouse Primary School
- St Matthew's Church of England Primary School
- Brunel Nursery School
- Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary School
- St Stephen's Church of England Primary School
- St James' Church of England Primary School Blackburn