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Blackburn with Darwen: school funding per pupil
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£177m for Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27, £1,079 per resident, 0.0% on a year earlier after inflation. That is £6,808 of schools block funding per pupil in 2026-27, against £6,771 for England. 2026-27 is the provisional allocation, which DfE updates for the latest pupil numbers.
Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
Key figures
- £177m2026-27, cash +2.0% on a year earlier
- £1,079Per resident, 2026-27
- £6,808Schools block funding per pupil, 2026-27 England: £6,771
- £6,674Schools block funding per pupil, real terms, 2026-27 England: £6,638
- £7,039Mainstream school funding per pupil, 2025-26 England: £6,996
Source: Department for Education.
Over time: cash, real terms and per resident
Real terms use HM Treasury’s GDP deflator, 2025-26 prices.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Real terms (2025-26 prices) | Cash |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £155.0m | £121.2m |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £159.6m | £131.3m |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £165.5m | £136.5m |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £165.0m | £145.6m |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £164.8m | £153.1m |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £170.3m | £164.6m |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £173.2m | £173.2m |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £173.2m | £176.7m |
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Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
Per resident divides by ONS mid-year population estimates.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Per resident, 2025-26 prices | Per resident, cash |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £1,006 | £787 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £1,033 | £849 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £1,068 | £881 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £1,058 | £933 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £1,040 | £966 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £1,054 | £1,018 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £1,057 | £1,057 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £1,058 | £1,079 |
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Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
Source: Department for Education, National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: summary tables, 2020-21 to 2026-27, published 19 November 2025.
Where it sits, and what is below it
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Blackburn with Darwen
The schools block of the dedicated schools grant for pupils aged 5 to 16 in mainstream schools, with the grants later rolled into it. 2026-27 is the provisional allocation. High needs (special educational needs), early years and central services are separate blocks and are not included.
£177m in 2026-27 (cash); £173m in 2025-26 prices; £1,079 per resident; +2.0% on a year earlier in cash, 0.0% in real terms.
Spending category: not published. Each mainstream school’s 2025-26 allocation is in the table of schools on this authority’s page (DfE school-level funding). What each school then spends is published separately (consistent financial reporting for maintained schools, academy accounts returns for academies) and is not read here.
Cash is as published. Real terms are in 2025-26 prices, using HM Treasury’s GDP deflator. Per resident divides by ONS mid-year population for the area the body serves. Changes compare the same body in consecutive years.
What is recorded alongside the money
These figures are published beside the funding, not as its result. Demand, geography, recording practice and many other things differ between areas and change over time; none of these charts shows cause and effect.
| Measure | Blackburn with Darwen | England | Period |
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Schools block funding per pupilDetails for Schools block funding per pupil | £6,808 | £6,771 | 2026-27 |
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Schools block funding per pupil, real termsDetails for Schools block funding per pupil, real terms | £6,674 | £6,638 | 2026-27 |
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Mainstream school funding per pupilDetails for Mainstream school funding per pupil | £7,039 | £6,996 | 2025-26 |
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Pupils per teacherDetails for Pupils per teacher | 18.2 pupils per teacher | 17.9 pupils per teacher | 2025/26 |
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Pupils in academiesDetails for Pupils in academies | 49.4% | 62.8% | 2025-26 |
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Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 peopleDetails for Apprenticeship starts per 100,000 people | 1,087 per 100,000 | 959 per 100,000 | 2024/25 |
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The local authority’s schools block of the dedicated schools grant, with the grants later rolled into it, divided by its schools block pupils (aged 5 to 16, in state-funded mainstream schools). Cash. Upper-tier authorities (counties, unitaries, metropolitan districts, London boroughs), England only. The latest year is the provisional allocation. Breaks in the series: 2020-21: From 2020-21 the teachers’ pay and pension grants are rolled in; each later year includes the grants rolled in the year after.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Blackburn with Darwen | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £4,838 | £4,645 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £5,201 | £5,063 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £5,351 | £5,221 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £5,646 | £5,534 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £5,922 | £5,839 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £6,360 | £6,298 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £6,674 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £6,808 | £6,771 |
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Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
The same, in the dataset’s price base using HM Treasury’s GDP deflator.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Blackburn with Darwen | England |
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2019-20Details for 2019-20 | £6,188 | £5,941 |
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2020-21Details for 2020-21 | £6,323 | £6,154 |
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2021-22Details for 2021-22 | £6,489 | £6,332 |
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2022-23Details for 2022-23 | £6,398 | £6,270 |
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2023-24Details for 2023-24 | £6,375 | £6,286 |
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2024-25Details for 2024-25 | £6,579 | £6,515 |
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2025-26Details for 2025-26 | £6,674 | £6,608 |
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2026-27Details for 2026-27 | £6,674 | £6,638 |
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Figure as of 19 November 2025. Source: Department for Education.
Full-time equivalent pupils per full-time equivalent teacher (qualified and unqualified) in state-funded schools, November each year (the school workforce census), England. The period is the academic year that starts that autumn.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Blackburn with Darwen | England |
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2010/11Details for 2010/11 | 16.5 | 17.1 |
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2011/12Details for 2011/12 | 16.7 | 17.2 |
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2012/13Details for 2012/13 | 18.2 | 17.2 |
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2013/14Details for 2013/14 | 15.6 | 17.1 |
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2014/15Details for 2014/15 | 16.1 | 17.1 |
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2015/16Details for 2015/16 | 16.2 | 17.3 |
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2016/17Details for 2016/17 | 16.8 | 17.5 |
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2017/18Details for 2017/18 | 17.2 | 17.9 |
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2018/19Details for 2018/19 | 17.3 | 18.0 |
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2019/20Details for 2019/20 | 17.8 | 18.2 |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 17.8 | 18.0 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 17.5 | 18.0 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 18.2 | 18.0 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 18.0 | 18.1 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 18.1 | 18.0 |
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2025/26Details for 2025/26 | 18.2 | 17.9 |
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Figure as of 4 June 2026. Source: Department for Education.
Apprenticeship starts by people living in the authority per 100,000 population, as DfE publishes it (on its own population estimate), England, academic year (August to July). Full years only.
The numbers behind this chart
| Year | Blackburn with Darwen | England |
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2020/21Details for 2020/21 | 1,060 | 906 |
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2021/22Details for 2021/22 | 1,183 | 980 |
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2022/23Details for 2022/23 | 1,058 | 938 |
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2023/24Details for 2023/24 | 1,030 | 932 |
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2024/25Details for 2024/25 | 1,087 | 959 |
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Figure as of 16 July 2026. Source: Department for Education.
Every mainstream school: its allocation for 2025-26
68 mainstream schools with 25,973 pupils were allocated £183m in 2025-26, £7,039 per pupil (England: £6,996). 49.4% of the pupils are in academies, which are funded directly by DfE on the same formula. Allocations differ mainly with pupils’ deprivation and prior attainment, school size and local costs; special schools and high-needs top-ups are not in this table.
| School | Phase | Pupils | Per pupil | Total | URN | Academy |
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Ashleigh Primary SchoolDetails for Ashleigh Primary School | Primary | 212 | £5,891 | £1,248,801 | 119200 | No |
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Audley Infant SchoolDetails for Audley Infant School | Primary | 263 | £6,300 | £1,656,862 | 119136 | No |
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Audley Junior SchoolDetails for Audley Junior School | Primary | 390 | £6,451 | £2,515,817 | 119115 | No |
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Avondale Primary SchoolDetails for Avondale Primary School | Primary | 408 | £6,089 | £2,484,191 | 119294 | No |
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Blackburn Central High SchoolDetails for Blackburn Central High School | Secondary | 980 | £8,732 | £8,557,102 | 146936 | Yes |
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Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for Blackburn St Thomas' Church of England Primary School | Primary | 419 | £6,110 | £2,560,213 | 119355 | No |
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Blackburn the Redeemer CofE PrimaryDetails for Blackburn the Redeemer CofE Primary | Primary | 418 | £5,397 | £2,256,153 | 133987 | No |
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Brookhouse Primary SchoolDetails for Brookhouse Primary School | Primary | 206 | £6,805 | £1,401,881 | 119344 | No |
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Cedars Primary SchoolDetails for Cedars Primary School | Primary | 361 | £6,344 | £2,290,175 | 119222 | No |
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Daisyfield Primary SchoolDetails for Daisyfield Primary School | Primary | 263 | £6,394 | £1,681,598 | 119123 | No |
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Darwen Aldridge Community AcademyDetails for Darwen Aldridge Community Academy | Secondary | 937 | £8,197 | £7,680,174 | 135580 | Yes |
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Darwen Aldridge Enterprise StudioDetails for Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio | Secondary | 212 | £9,313 | £1,974,253 | 139924 | Yes |
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Darwen St James CofE Primary AcademyDetails for Darwen St James CofE Primary Academy | Primary | 170 | £7,644 | £1,299,413 | 140891 | Yes |
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Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 257 | £6,469 | £1,662,611 | 119458 | No |
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Darwen Vale High SchoolDetails for Darwen Vale High School | Secondary | 1,087 | £7,835 | £8,516,144 | 141321 | Yes |
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Darwen, St Barnabas CofE Primary AcademyDetails for Darwen, St Barnabas CofE Primary Academy | Primary | 207 | £5,543 | £1,147,384 | 141483 | Yes |
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Feniscowles Primary SchoolDetails for Feniscowles Primary School | Primary | 406 | £5,689 | £2,309,840 | 119163 | No |
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Griffin Park Primary SchoolDetails for Griffin Park Primary School | Primary | 206 | £6,830 | £1,406,901 | 119116 | No |
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Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for Hoddlesden St Paul's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 207 | £5,332 | £1,103,737 | 119455 | No |
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Holy Souls Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnDetails for Holy Souls Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn | Primary | 188 | £6,168 | £1,159,534 | 119517 | No |
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Holy Trinity VC SchoolDetails for Holy Trinity VC School | Primary | 119 | £8,202 | £976,050 | 119357 | No |
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Intack Primary SchoolDetails for Intack Primary School | Primary | 365 | £7,067 | £2,579,449 | 119118 | No |
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Lammack Primary SchoolDetails for Lammack Primary School | Primary | 540 | £5,464 | £2,950,707 | 119124 | No |
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Livesey Saint Francis' Church of England SchoolDetails for Livesey Saint Francis' Church of England School | Primary | 176 | £6,213 | £1,093,550 | 119423 | No |
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Longshaw Community Junior SchoolDetails for Longshaw Community Junior School | Primary | 359 | £7,266 | £2,608,349 | 119119 | No |
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Longshaw Infant SchoolDetails for Longshaw Infant School | Primary | 217 | £7,272 | £1,578,092 | 119125 | No |
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Lower Darwen Primary SchoolDetails for Lower Darwen Primary School | Primary | 383 | £5,735 | £2,196,420 | 119120 | No |
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Meadowhead Community Infant School and NurseryDetails for Meadowhead Community Infant School and Nursery | Primary | 120 | £8,350 | £1,002,037 | 119122 | No |
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Meadowhead Junior SchoolDetails for Meadowhead Junior School | Primary | 221 | £7,855 | £1,735,952 | 119121 | No |
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Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary AcademyDetails for Our Lady and St John RC High School, a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 806 | £8,755 | £7,056,791 | 150308 | Yes |
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Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnDetails for Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn | Primary | 175 | £7,339 | £1,284,377 | 119512 | No |
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Pleckgate High SchoolDetails for Pleckgate High School | Secondary | 1,352 | £7,844 | £10,604,931 | 142088 | Yes |
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Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolDetails for Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School | Secondary | 722 | £7,286 | £5,260,567 | 141165 | Yes |
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Queen Elizabeth's Primary SchoolDetails for Queen Elizabeth's Primary School | Primary | 377 | £5,544 | £2,089,997 | 148834 | Yes |
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Roe Lee Park Primary SchoolDetails for Roe Lee Park Primary School | Primary | 405 | £6,194 | £2,508,511 | 119127 | No |
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Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnDetails for Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn | Primary | 176 | £6,738 | £1,185,856 | 119510 | No |
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Shadsworth Infant SchoolDetails for Shadsworth Infant School | Primary | 169 | £7,889 | £1,333,237 | 119220 | No |
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Shadsworth Junior SchoolDetails for Shadsworth Junior School | Primary | 220 | £7,650 | £1,682,995 | 119221 | No |
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St Aidan's Primary School - A Church of England AcademyDetails for St Aidan's Primary School - A Church of England Academy | Primary | 187 | £7,982 | £1,492,552 | 141350 | Yes |
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St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnDetails for St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn | Primary | 157 | £7,439 | £1,167,967 | 119706 | No |
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St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnDetails for St Anne's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn | Primary | 200 | £7,359 | £1,471,709 | 119511 | No |
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St Antony's RC Primary SchoolDetails for St Antony's RC Primary School | Primary | 210 | £7,406 | £1,555,241 | 119516 | No |
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St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolDetails for St Barnabas and St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | 421 | £6,613 | £2,783,996 | 119499 | No |
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St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, BlackburnDetails for St Bede's Roman Catholic High School, Blackburn | Secondary | 1,047 | £7,304 | £7,646,913 | 119793 | No |
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St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 198 | £6,718 | £1,330,126 | 119615 | No |
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St Edward's RC Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyDetails for St Edward's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | 202 | £6,075 | £1,227,185 | 150080 | Yes |
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St Gabriel's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Gabriel's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 212 | £5,881 | £1,246,749 | 119501 | No |
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St James' Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St James' Church of England Primary School | Primary | 195 | £6,592 | £1,285,363 | 119503 | No |
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St James' Church of England Primary School BlackburnDetails for St James' Church of England Primary School Blackburn | Primary | 373 | £6,079 | £2,267,317 | 119502 | No |
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St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, DarwenDetails for St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Darwen | Primary | 161 | £6,177 | £994,535 | 119667 | No |
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St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary School | Primary | 205 | £7,869 | £1,613,152 | 140559 | Yes |
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St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnDetails for St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn | Primary | 209 | £6,797 | £1,420,629 | 119513 | No |
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St Matthew's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Matthew's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 274 | £6,907 | £1,892,608 | 119505 | No |
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St Michael With St John CofE Primary SchoolDetails for St Michael With St John CofE Primary School | Primary | 285 | £6,457 | £1,840,188 | 119356 | No |
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St Paul's Roman Catholic Primary School, Feniscowles, BlackburnDetails for St Paul's Roman Catholic Primary School, Feniscowles, Blackburn | Primary | 212 | £5,468 | £1,159,240 | 119649 | No |
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St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, BlackburnDetails for St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Blackburn | Primary | 396 | £6,223 | £2,464,305 | 119514 | No |
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St Silas's CofE Primary SchoolDetails for St Silas's CofE Primary School | Primary | 333 | £6,426 | £2,139,930 | 146541 | Yes |
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St Stephen's Church of England Primary SchoolDetails for St Stephen's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 401 | £6,341 | £2,542,864 | 119439 | No |
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St Stephen's Tockholes CofE Primary SchoolDetails for St Stephen's Tockholes CofE Primary School | Primary | 58 | £8,847 | £513,129 | 119459 | No |
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St Wilfrid's Church of England AcademyDetails for St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy | Secondary | 1,281 | £7,392 | £9,468,558 | 136900 | Yes |
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Sudell Primary SchoolDetails for Sudell Primary School | Primary | 158 | £7,777 | £1,228,775 | 141838 | Yes |
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Tauheedul Islam Boys' High SchoolDetails for Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School | Secondary | 628 | £7,232 | £4,541,996 | 138220 | Yes |
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Tauheedul Islam Girls' High SchoolDetails for Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School | Secondary | 620 | £6,998 | £4,338,468 | 141565 | Yes |
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The Olive School, BlackburnDetails for The Olive School, Blackburn | Primary | 638 | £5,293 | £3,376,869 | 139813 | Yes |
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Turton and Edgworth CofE/Methodist Controlled Primary SchoolDetails for Turton and Edgworth CofE/Methodist Controlled Primary School | Primary | 186 | £5,536 | £1,029,735 | 119408 | No |
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Turton Belmont Community Primary SchoolDetails for Turton Belmont Community Primary School | Primary | 93 | £7,036 | £654,324 | 119201 | No |
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Wensley Fold CofE Primary AcademyDetails for Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy | Primary | 419 | £5,519 | £2,312,337 | 139514 | Yes |
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Witton Park AcademyDetails for Witton Park Academy | Secondary | 1,315 | £8,493 | £11,167,945 | 140879 | Yes |
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Total is the school’s core schools block allocation plus pupil premium, the universal infant free school meals and PE and sport grants, and the teachers’ pay, National Insurance and schools budget support grants, as DfE lists them. Per pupil divides it by the school’s pupils. Each school’s record on the Get Information about Schools register is found by its URN.
Source: Department for Education, School funding statistics, Financial year 2025-26: national time series and school-level allocations, published 29 January 2026.
What these figures do and don't show
- Different measures at each level. The UK and nation totals are HM Treasury’s spending on education by function. Below them are each publisher’s own measures: DfE’s core schools budget, each authority’s schools block, councils’ net education spending. They are not expected to add up to the level above.
- England is not the UK. Education is devolved. The schools block, school allocations, the school workforce, apprenticeships and the student loan book shown here are England’s, and are never added to UK or other nations’ figures.
- Per pupil is not comparable across nations. England’s schools block, Wales’s figures and Scotland’s council spending per pupil measure different things, so each authority is compared only with its own nation.
- Student loans are lending, not spending. The money lent, repaid and still owed is shown beside the spending, not added to it. Only the part not expected to be repaid counts as spending, on the basis the Office for National Statistics introduced in 2018.
- Nothing here shows cause and effect. Pupils per teacher, apprenticeship starts and other figures are shown alongside the money, not as its result. Areas differ in deprivation, sparsity, pupils with special needs and costs, which is why funding per pupil differs.
- Allocations are not spending. School-level figures are what each school was allocated for the year, not what it spent; the latest schools block year is provisional.
Where this sits: United Kingdom → England → Department for Education: total departmental expenditure limit → State-funded schools in England: core funding for pupils aged 5 to 16 → Blackburn with Darwen. Figures from data/services/education.json, generated 29 September 2026.
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| School funding statistics, Financial year 2025-26: national time series and school-level allocations | Department for Education | 29 January 2026 | annual | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| School workforce in England, Reporting year 2025: size of the workforce and pupil to teacher ratios | Department for Education | 4 June 2026 | annual | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
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