Blackburn Central High School Overview

Blackburn Central High School is a secondary school located in Blackburn and reports to the local authority of Blackburn with Darwen.

Blackburn Central High School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 900 students but currently enrols 960 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Blackburn Central High School students range across many different ethnicities with Pakistani being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 49.5% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 52.8% of students at the school.

39.2% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Blackburn Central High School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities