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Blackburn with Darwen School Catchment Areas

Reviewed by the catchment.school editorial team · Last updated 15 March 2026

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.

89 total 56 primary 12 secondary 9 areas

Blackburn with Darwen Catchment Area Documents

Official admissions policies and catchment boundary maps for Blackburn with Darwen schools are published annually.

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