Back 2024-25
Blacon High School, A Specialist Sports College
Melbourne Road, Blacon, Chester, CH1 5JH
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Secondary
Phase
750
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 33.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 17.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 36.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 8.3%
- EBacc APS
- 2.6
- Cohort Size
- 133
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 73.0%
- Not sustained
- 60.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 2.0%
- Employment
- 10.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 705
- Boys
- 379 (54%)
- Girls
- 326 (46%)
- Capacity
- 750 (94% full)
- SEND
- 29.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 47.4%
- EAL
- 7.5%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 6.7%
- SEN Support
- 22.8%
Attendance & Absence
2023-24*Data not available for 2024-25 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 14.9%
- Persistent Absence
- 44.7%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 84.5%
- White Other: 5.3%
- Other: 5.3%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.9%
- Black Caribbean: 0.9%
- Mixed Other: 0.5%
- Black Other: 0.5%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.4%
84.5%
White British
5.3%
White Other
5.3%
Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Melbourne Road
Chester, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 111396
- UKPRN
- 10015001
- Establishment No.
- 4006
- Trust
- Blacon High School Trust