Which school had the best GCSE results in Blackburn in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School topped the table in Blackburn with 73.1, against an England average of 46.3. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

Where are the latest Blackburn GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Blackburn are on the main Blackburn GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. Progress 8 measures the same pupils against others nationally with the same primary-school starting point.

Why does a school in Blackburn show no 2023 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2023 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Blackburn GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

9 state secondary schools in Blackburn ranked on their 2023 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2022/23 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 5 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Blackburn GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Town 10 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Blackburn ranked on Attainment 8

9 of 10 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Blackburn ranked on Attainment 8, 2023 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.3	0.00	45%	65%	4.05	–
1	Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School Blackburn · Academy converter	73.1	+2.30 (2.05 to 2.55)	94%	97%	7.13	126
2	Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School Blackburn · Free schools	62.1	+1.47 (1.23 to 1.71)	84%	93%	5.54	134
3	St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy Blackburn · Academy converter	51.3	+0.21 (0.03 to 0.39)	56%	78%	4.60	253
4	Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Blackburn · Free schools	48.2	-0.15 (-0.40 to 0.09)	44%	69%	4.42	140
5 , up 1 place since 2022	Pleckgate High School Blackburn · Academy sponsor led	48.0	+0.28 (0.10 to 0.47)	52%	74%	4.12	248
6 , down 1 place since 2022	St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, Blackburn Blackburn · Voluntary aided school	46.5	-0.12 (-0.31 to 0.08)	47%	73%	4.28	207
7 , up 1 place since 2022	Blackburn Central High School Blackburn · Academy converter	40.5	-0.48 (-0.69 to -0.26)	34%	54%	3.70	173
8 , down 1 place since 2022	Witton Park Academy Blackburn · Academy converter	38.3	-0.70 (-0.88 to -0.52)	33%	50%	3.43	252
9	The Hyndburn Academy Blackburn · Academy sponsor led	33.4	-0.89 (-1.21 to -0.58)	19%	43%	2.61	77
–	Our Lady and St John RC High School Blackburn · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

Under each rank: the change since the 2022 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2022 result.

Independent schools in Blackburn with published 2023 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
Al Islah Girls' High School Blackburn · Other independent school	34.4	24%	21
Islamiyah School Blackburn · Other independent school	56.8	58%	45
Jamiatul-Ilm Wal-Huda UK School Blackburn · Other independent school	58.5	78%	46
Markazul Uloom Blackburn · Other independent school	51.1	89%	9
Westholme School Blackburn · Other independent school	57.5	60%	100

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school; the England average for 2023 was 46.3.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 measures how much progress pupils made from the end of primary school to their GCSEs against pupils nationally with the same starting point; it is the like-for-like measure, and the range in brackets is its confidence interval.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2023 archive of the table: each school's 2023 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2023 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Blackburn GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Blackburn on our composite score

Blackburn GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Blackburn ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Blackburn with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Blackburn

Blackburn GCSE results: common questions