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Eden School

Special schoolAges 8–16Free school

Blackburn, BB2 4NW · Blackburn with Darwen local authority

Blackburn’s School Grade B better than 62% of towns in England

How full
64 pupils
107% of its 60 places
Free school meals
69%
69 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Eden School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 64 pupils for 60 places
  • 69% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, November 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (BB2 4) sold for a median £135,750; Blackburn’s is £170,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 16 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Eden beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 11.6

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Blackburn with Darwen avg 46.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3Eden 11.6

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Blackburn with Darwen avg 46%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Eden 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
13.1
2024/25
13
2025/26
11.6

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.68: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Blackburn with Darwen 63% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

59 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
6.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
66.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 20%Boys 80%
Its letter

No letter for Eden School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, November 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Eden School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in BB2 4, the school’s postcode sector

Blackburn property prices →
£135,750
median sale, 616 sales in 36 months · Blackburn £170,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025BB2 4Blackburn
BB2 4Blackburn

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£250K
Semi-detached
£160K
Terraced
£100K
Flat
£90K
BB2 4Blackburn

Homes in BB2 4 sell for well under Blackburn’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

24 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−B+D−DB+B−D−C−BB+C+D−BA+B+A+DCDD−CB+Eden School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Blackburn, BB2 4NW

Eden School: common questions

What is Eden School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2023).

How much do houses cost near Eden School?

Homes in its postcode sector, BB2 4, sold for a median £135,750 over the 36 months to August 2026 (616 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Blackburn’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.