Darwen Aldridge Sudell Primary
Ofsted: Needs attention
Score
F30
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Darwen, BB3 3EB
- Distance
- 0.7km away
Darwen St James CofE Primary Academy
St James Crescent, Darwen, BB3 0EY
Local ranking50th of 55 primary schools in Blackburn with Darwen
Ofsted: Good
Primary
Phase
265
Capacity
3-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 9 July 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
- Early years
- Good
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 37.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 0.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 53.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 47.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 63.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 42.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 99.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 100.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 99.0
- Cohort Size
- 19
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 194
- Boys
- 94 (48%)
- Girls
- 100 (52%)
- Capacity
- 265 (73% full)
- SEND
- 21.1%
- FSM Eligible
- 54.6%
- EAL
- 30.4%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.1%
- SEN Support
- 18.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 23.0:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 7.6
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,120/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.5% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 33.3% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Church of England
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 65.6%
- Asian Pakistani: 14.8%
- Black African: 8.5%
- White Other: 4.8%
- White Traveller: 1.6%
- Asian Other: 1.6%
- Mixed Other: 1.1%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.5%
65.6%
White British
14.8%
Asian Pakistani
8.5%
Black African
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
St James Crescent
Darwen, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 140891
- UKPRN
- 10046199
- Establishment No.
- 3377
- Trust
- CIDARI EDUCATION LIMITED
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