Blackpool Aspire Academy
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
F31
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Blackpool, FY3 7LS
- Distance
- 1.4km away
Baines School
Highcross Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, FY6 8BE
Local ranking50th of 82 secondary schools in Lancashire
Ofsted: ExpectedUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
890
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 24 March 2026. Figures last updated .
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum & teaching
- Expected standard
- Attendance & behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership & governance
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 47.4 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 46.7% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 67.9% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 137
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 88.0%
- Continued in education
- 76.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 5.0%
- Employment
- 6.0%
- Not sustained
- 8.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 747
- Boys
- 354 (49%)
- Girls
- 372 (51%)
- Capacity
- 890 (82% full)
- SEND
- 6.2%
- FSM Eligible
- 31.6%
- EAL
- 3.1%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.2%
- SEN Support
- 5.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 12.7:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,562/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 8.5% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 28.6% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 88.3%
- White Other: 3.8%
- Mixed White & Black African: 2.0%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.1%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.8%
- Mixed Other: 0.8%
- Other: 0.8%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 0.7%
88.3%
White British
3.8%
White Other
2.0%
Mixed White & Black African
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Highcross Road
Poulton-le-Fylde, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 119813
- UKPRN
- 10000504
- Establishment No.
- 5404
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