Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
Ofsted: Good
Score
D53
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Blackburn, BB2 6DF
- Distance
- 1.7km away
Pleckgate High School
Pleckgate Road, Blackburn, BB1 8QA
Local ranking3rd of 12 secondary schools in Blackburn with Darwen
Ofsted: Outstanding
Secondary
Phase
1350
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 49.2 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 47.1% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 71.2% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 44.2% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 4.3 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 274
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 90.0%
- Continued in education
- 85.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 3.0%
- Employment
- 3.0%
- Not sustained
- 7.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1354
- Boys
- 739 (55%)
- Girls
- 615 (45%)
- Capacity
- 1350 (100% full)
- SEND
- 16.0%
- FSM Eligible
- 25.4%
- EAL
- 24.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.0%
- SEN Support
- 14.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 17.8:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 76.0
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,679/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.5% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 22.5% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- Asian Pakistani: 51.6%
- Asian Indian: 28.4%
- Other: 5.8%
- Asian Other: 3.4%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 3.0%
- White British: 2.5%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.4%
- White Other: 1.0%
51.6%
Asian Pakistani
28.4%
Asian Indian
5.8%
Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Administrative
- URN
- 142088
- UKPRN
- 10052484
- Establishment No.
- 4005
- Trust
- EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP TRUST
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