Contested schools in Blackburn with Darwen

These are the Blackburn with Darwen schools that turned first-choice families away in at least one of the last three years — either because more families named them first than they had places, or because they refused families who named them first anyway. Figures shown are for 2026/27. Demand is not a forecast: an oversubscribed school turns more families away, which is not the same as their appeals succeeding more often.

Appeal success rates for Blackburn with Darwen

Secondary schools (7)

Each has its own page with a 12-year demand history.

Contested secondary schools in Blackburn with Darwen, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School	120	250	2.08
Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School	115	233	2.03
St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, Blackburn	207	262	1.27
St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy	252	293	1.16
Pleckgate High School	265	281	1.06
Darwen Vale High School	233	209	0.90
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School	167	126	0.75

Primary schools (18)

Primary schools are listed here as figures rather than pages. Most refusals at the Reception intake are infant class size cases, where a panel can only act on three narrow grounds and fewer than one in ten appeals succeeds — so the honest thing to publish is the data, not a page inviting an appeal.

Contested primary schools in Blackburn with Darwen, 2026/27
School	Places	First choices	Per place
The Olive School, Blackburn	90	156	1.73
Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy	59	85	1.44
St Antony's RC Primary School	30	42	1.40
St Paul's Roman Catholic Primary School, Feniscowles, Blackburn	30	41	1.37
Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary School	29	39	1.34
St Gabriel's Church of England Primary School	30	36	1.20
Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary School	60	71	1.18
Feniscowles Primary School	60	69	1.15
Daisyfield Primary School	30	33	1.10
St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn	30	33	1.10
St James' Church of England Primary School	30	31	1.03
Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary	60	60	1
Turton Belmont Community Primary School	7	7	—
Lammack Primary School	90	87	0.97
Ashleigh Primary School	34	32	0.94
Griffin Park Primary School	30	28	0.93
St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Blackburn	43	37	0.86
Darwen, St Barnabas CofE Primary Academy	26	21	0.81

Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers, school-level file, 2026/27. Appeal outcomes are not published for individual schools — how we source and calculate the figures.