St Charles' Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Primary · Blackburn · BB1 4HT
SchoolFacts estimate: Ofsted awarded no overall grade at this inspection
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Inspected 25 March 2025
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161 pupils · 77% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 17.4% of pupils
- URN
- 152199
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.95 first-choice applications per place20 places offered · 19 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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.
Compare admissions across the area: Blackburn school admissions · Lancashire school admissions
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 5/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 27.7% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 20.7% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 27.9% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 17.4% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 41.9% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 71.1% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 3% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 25.9% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 14.5% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 3.2% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 9.4% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 20.7% | 23.5% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01025073 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,083 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £128,000254 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
- Typical range
- £90,000–£185,000the 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.
Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. 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
- 4a rural school averages 0.3
- Collisions at school-run times
- 4a rural school averages 0.7
- All reported collisions
- 27a rural school averages 3.4
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 9a rural school averages 0.9
Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. 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, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby schools
- Rishton Methodist Primary School
- Rishton St Peter and St Paul's Church of England Primary School
- The Hyndburn Academy
- Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School
- Great Harwood Primary School
- St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood
- Clayton-le-Moors All Saints' Church of England Primary School
- Oswaldtwistle West End Primary School