Overall Oxbridge
#1,442
1 ranked schools · -528 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
8
Offers
1
Offer rate12.5%
-9.9 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
One of the twelve founding members of the English Football League, Accrington in Lancashire carries a genuinely distinctive industrial and civic heritage, from the cotton mills that once lined the culverted River Hyndburn to the Accrington NORI bricks that went into the foundations of Blackpool Tower and the Empire State Building. Around 35,000 people live across the borough today, and Northern rail services reach Manchester Victoria in around an hour.
West End is among the most sought-after pockets for primary catchments, while Clayton-le-Moors and Huncoat extend the residential spread to the east of the town centre. Baxenden sits further south.
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Area Performance
Across 31 primary and secondary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 6.55/10, -0.81 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Accrington schools
Accrington vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Accrington schools
top 69% of 14,978
top 69% of 14,978
top 77% of 3,862
top 77% of 3,862
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · -528 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
8
Offers
1
Oxford
1 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
5
Offers
0
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · -334 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
3
Offers
1
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