Blackburn with Darwen School Catchment Areas

Blackburn with Darwen coordinates admissions across 56 primary and 12 secondary schools, with oversubscription criteria applied consistently across the authority.

Expect the tightest competition in and around Blackburn and Darwen, where popular primaries are regularly oversubscribed and last-distance-offered figures can shrink to a few hundred metres.

Around 49% of schools in Blackburn with Darwen have a religious character — Church of England, Catholic, or other faith — which means faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in those schools' oversubscription tiebreakers.