Overall Oxbridge
#471
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
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Offer rate50.0%
+27.6 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
A compact mill and market town of around 28,000 on the River Darwen in Lancashire, Darwen sits within the Blackburn with Darwen borough a few miles south of Blackburn. Cotton weaving and paper milling defined Darwen's nineteenth-century growth, and the dense terraces those industries created still frame the approach to the town centre today.
Darwen Town Centre and its surrounding streets form the borough's most school-competitive pocket for families seeking primary places. Whitehall and Hoddlesden extend further east and south. Trains from Darwen station reach Blackburn in under ten minutes and Manchester Victoria in around fifty, running south via Bolton on the Northern network.
Area Performance
Across 20 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 6.81/10, -0.60 vs England.
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Distribution across all Darwen schools
Darwen vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Darwen schools
top 71% of 14,978
top 71% of 14,978
top 72% of 3,680
top 72% of 3,680
top 57% of 2,376
top 57% of 2,376
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
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Cambridge
1 ranked schools · +409 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
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