Brookhouse Primary School, Blackburn

Ofsted's report card from its 22 September 2026 inspection grades Brookhouse Primary School on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make positive progress from their starting points, securing the knowledge and skills they need to achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have implemented a highly effective approach to improving attendance, resulting in sustained improvements."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a logically sequenced and ambitious curriculum that secures strong foundations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and other barriers to learning."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children in the early years get off to a strong start in their education."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders pride themselves on the school's inclusive ethos."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders are committed to continuous improvement."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a well-sequenced curriculum for personal, social, health and economic education so that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and other barriers to learning, learn age-appropriate topics in increasing detail over time."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should further review and embed the consistent use of pupil plans for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and other barriers to learning so that support is identified and implemented promptly, enabling pupils to make stronger progress across the curriculum"; "Leaders should ensure that strategies to identify and address vocabulary misconceptions are used consistently across the curriculum so that pupils develop and apply ambitious subject-specific vocabulary effectively, leading to stronger attainment, including in writing at greater depth".

Coming up: an open day on Tuesday 3 November 2026 and an open day on Wednesday 4 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2025, 93% of Year 6 pupils at Brookhouse Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 97% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 76% in Blackburn with Darwen and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 80% in reading and 83% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 20 families put Brookhouse Primary School as their first choice and 63 named it as one of their preferences, for 25 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Brookhouse Primary School are Cedars Primary School (0.3 miles, Good, 83% reading, 93% maths); St James' Church of England Primary School Blackburn (0.3 miles, Good, 83% reading, 90% maths); St Michael With St John CofE Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 83% reading, 81% maths); and St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn (0.4 miles, Requires improvement, 72% reading, 66% maths).

Brookhouse Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 4 of them.

99.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 53 pupils (21.5%) received SEN support and 16 (6.5%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest railway station is Blackburn Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.

19 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Wimberley Bank (adjacent), 110 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Brookhouse Primary School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

Brookhouse Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.

The secondary schools closest to Brookhouse Primary School are Pleckgate High School (0.8 miles) and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (0.9 miles).