Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio

School overview

Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio is a secondary school serving Blackburn with Darwen, classified by the DfE as a studio school. It has 264 pupils aged 13 to 19 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 34.7, well below the national average of 46. That is down 1.7 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

28% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 49% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. After Year 11, 88% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 14.1%. There are about 13.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 47% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.