Griffin Park Primary School, Blackburn

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades Griffin Park Primary School on 7 areas: 6 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils generally achieve well and are prepared for the next stage of their education."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Attendance and behaviour have a high profile."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders demonstrate a secure understanding of the quality of the curriculum."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders place a high priority on inclusion."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders wrap their arms around their community."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have created a coherent offer that supports pupils' wider development beyond the classroom."

Early years - Needs attention. "Leaders have created a curriculum that prioritises children's personal, social and emotional development."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff in the early years have the necessary expertise to design learning that helps children to learn all that they should in readiness for their next stage of learning"; "Leaders should ensure that early writing is developed consistently well in the early years so that pupils in key stage 1 do not have gaps in their knowledge and can access the curriculum fully"; "Leaders should ensure that staff use assessment information more effectively, including in the early years, to reshape their teaching so that learning activities better match pupils' needs".

From the headteacher's welcome: "At Griffin Park we are committed to providing the highest quality education possible for all; regardless of race, class, gender, ability or disability in partnership with parents/carers. We aim to ensure that every child realises his or her potential through work and play and goes on to secondary education fully equipped and prepared both academically and socially."

The school runs a breakfast club from 8:00am and after-school care, from £2.00 per day.

In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils at Griffin Park Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 89% 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 71% in reading and 79% in maths in 2024.

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

For September 2026 entry, 28 families put Griffin Park Primary School as their first choice and 58 named it as one of their preferences, for 30 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 Griffin Park Primary School are St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Blackburn (0.3 miles, Good, 71% reading, 68% maths); St Luke and St Philips Church of England Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 57% reading, 57% maths); St Aidan's Primary School - A Church of England Academy (0.4 miles, Good, 38% reading, 50% maths); and Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy (0.5 miles, Outstanding, 90% reading, 93% maths).

Griffin Park Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

35.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (47%) and Asian (41%).

In 2026, 45 pupils (19.4%) received SEN support and 6 (2.6%) 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 Mill Hill (Lancs) Rail Station, about 590 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

23 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Lansdowne Street (by), 40 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Griffin Park Primary School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 501 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Blackburn with Darwen (289), as is usual near a town centre.

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

The secondary schools closest to Griffin Park Primary School are Witton Park Academy (0.3 miles), St Wilfrid's Church of England Academy (0.4 miles), Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School (0.6 miles) and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (0.9 miles).