St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy
Secondary · Blackburn · BB2 2JR
Data updated
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 11 January 2023
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1,483 pupils · 91% of 1,630 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 26.9% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 19.1% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 7% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 1.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- www.saintwilfrids.co.uk
- URN
- 136900
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 293 families named it first for 252 Year 7 places, 1.16 first choices per place. We hold one Year 7 admissions round for it, 2026 entry, and it was not decided by a published distance. An ungraded Ofsted inspection on 11 January 2023 confirmed its earlier grade, Good. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 6.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.16 first-choice applications per place252 places offered · 293 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Cutoff by admission criterion (2026 entry)
- Criterion 12 (children who attended a Church of England primary school for the whole of Year 5)
- 1.111 miles
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Blackburn school admissions · Blackburn with Darwen school admissions
GCSE results (2024/2025)
247 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
A-level results (2024/2025)
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Schools with a similar intake
Attainment 8, 2024/2025
On attainment 8, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.
They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Special educational needs
Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.
- Hearing Impairment
Provision type: Resourced provision.
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 43% (Blackburn with Darwen 37%, England 59%) · Asian Pakistani 19% (Blackburn with Darwen 26%, England 5%) · Asian Indian 12% (Blackburn with Darwen 16%, England 4%) · Any other Asian background 5% (Blackburn with Darwen 5%, England 3%) · Not recorded 5% (Blackburn with Darwen 2%, England 2%) · Any other White background 4% (Blackburn with Darwen 3%, England 7%) · Black African 4% (Blackburn with Darwen 2%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Blackburn with Darwen 1%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 2% (Blackburn with Darwen 3%, England 3%) · Any other Mixed background 2% (Blackburn with Darwen 2%, England 3%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Blackburn with Darwen 0%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Blackburn with Darwen 0%, England 1%) · other groups together 2%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
10.81 suspensions per 100 pupils and 4 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Blackburn with Darwen: 23.01 suspensions and 0.33 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% moved to another state school · 6% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
59.4% of teachers took sickness absence, 8.3 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £53,592; 13% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
Spending per pupil (2024-25)
Where the money went (2024-25)
Share of spending, with the median for secondary schools in brackets: Staff 77% (77%) · premises 6% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 6% (6%) · supplies and services 10% (11%) · educational supplies 6% (6%) · bought-in professional services 2% (1%) · catering 4% (3%)
Reserves (2024-25)
Revenue reserve £3,845,000; in-year balance -£17,000
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, DfE · how spending is compared
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 January 2023: School remains Good
- 22 February 2018: School remains Good
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 1/10among the most deprived tenth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 1/10among the most deprived tenth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 15.6% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 38.5% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 9.1% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 42.8% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 40.5% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 17.7% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 53.9% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 28.3% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 6.2% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 33.4% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 5.2% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 61.1% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01012622 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £108,000309 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £84,000–£132,500the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are among the cheapest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 5an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 10an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 60an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 22an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted
Nearby schools
- St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary School
- Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School
- St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Ashworth Nursery School
- Griffin Park Primary School
- St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn
- St Aidan's Primary School - A Church of England Academy
- St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Blackburn