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Highfurlong School

Special schoolAges 2–19Academy

Blackpool, FY3 7LS · Blackpool local authority

Blackpool’s School Grade D better than 15% of towns in England

How full
146 pupils
112% of its 130 places
Free school meals
57%
57 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Highfurlong School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 146 pupils for 130 places
  • 57% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (FY3 7) sold for a median £132,500; Blackpool’s is £140,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

124 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
6.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
61.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 36%Boys 64%
Its letter

No letter for Highfurlong 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.

Not inspected yet (a new school, or one that changed status recently).

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Highfurlong School

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

Home prices in FY3 7, the school’s postcode sector

Blackpool property prices →
£132,500
median sale, 350 sales in 36 months · Blackpool £140,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K2010201520202025FY3 7Blackpool
FY3 7Blackpool

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£228K
Semi-detached
£145K
Terraced
£108K
Flat
£66K
FY3 7Blackpool

Homes in FY3 7 sell for a little under Blackpool’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

22 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBBA−A−C−C+BBA+B+CD−DC−C+C+C+C−B−B−D−CHighfurlong School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Blackpool, FY3 7LS

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; Blackpool’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.