Queen Elizabeth's Primary School, Blackburn
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Queen Elizabeth's Primary School excels at helping children settle quickly and develop confidence from Reception onwards. Pupils love attending school and benefit from excellent reading teaching using phonics, high standards of behaviour, and a curriculum enriched with outdoor learning, practical activities and trips. The school particularly supports disadvantaged pupils well, ensuring they access the same enrichment opportunities as their peers.
Key Strengths
- High attendance and punctuality rates, with pupils eager to attend school
- Strong reading provision using phonics, with most pupils reading fluently and confidently
- Effective support for disadvantaged pupils, helping them access clubs, trips and leadership roles
- Well-behaved pupils who respond positively to the school's behaviour system and reward structure
- Broad and ambitious curriculum with outdoor learning and practical activities that bring learning to life
Areas for Improvement
- Inconsistency in how teachers identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge, particularly affecting pupils with SEND
- Variable standard of written work across the wider curriculum for some pupils
- Need to embed recent curriculum changes more consistently, especially in writing instruction
- Some pupils with special educational needs do not make as much progress as they could
- Not all teachers equally confident in meeting the differing needs of pupils with SEND
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, concerns are actively identified and acted upon, and pupils feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Clubs, trips, visits to places of worship, museums, fieldwork, outdoor learning, sports
Queen Elizabeth's Primary School, which opened in 2023, is meeting expected standards across most areas. The school has strong attendance and behaviour, with most pupils achieving well particularly in reading, though some inconsistencies exist in how teachers address gaps in pupils' knowledge.
At a Glance
14.2%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 80% to 63%. Maths has declined from 82% to 54%. Writing has improved from 73% to 86%.
Class Sizes
27.2
Avg class size
26.2
Infant (KS1)
28.0
KS2
13
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
99%
Near capacity
387 pupils
392 capacity
5 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Blackburn
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Blackburn
Admissions Demand - Blackburn with Darwen
Places available
2,356
Applications
1,866
Got 1st preference
90.9%
Got preferred school
98.3%
Primary admissions across Blackburn with Darwen (2025/26)
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.70747%
Overall absence
13.69048%
Persistent absence
336
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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