Darwen Aldridge Community Academy Overview

Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is a secondary & 6th form school located in Darwen and reports to the local authority of Blackburn with Darwen.

Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 19 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1600 students but currently only enrols 1068 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Darwen Aldridge Community Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 78.1% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 12.5% of students at the school.

33.2% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Darwen Aldridge Community Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities