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# Eden School

Eden School is a free school in Blackburn, United Kingdom with 64 pupils, part of Education Partnership Trust. Ofsted: Good, inspected 14 November 2023. As of 13 November 2026 it is advertising 1 vacancy: Safeguarding & Attendance Officer (closes 15 November).

Listed on EduAtlas: the school’s official record and its live vacancies. [1 live vacancy](https://eduatlas.org/#vacancies).

- **Head:** Sophie Gooding, Acting Head Teacher
- **Trust or group:** Education Partnership Trust
- **Type:** Free school
- **Pupils:** 64 pupils · 19% girls · 68.8% eligible for free school meals · 6.3% with English as an additional language — DfE school census, 2025/26
- **Special needs:** 0 (0.0%) on SEN support · 64 (100.0%) with an education, health and care plan — DfE, Special educational needs in England, 2025/26
- **Local authority:** Blackburn with Darwen
- **Location:** Blackburn, BB2 4NW, United Kingdom
- **Telephone:** 01254790241
- **Website:** [edenschool.org.uk](https://www.edenschool.org.uk/)
- **Register number:** URN 141016 ([register entry](https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/141016))
- **Ofsted:** Good, inspected 14 November 2023

## Vacancies (1)

- [Safeguarding & Attendance Officer](https://eduatlas.org/jobs/05p8r1loci7-safeguarding-attendance-officer) · Salary £25,568 to £29,128 a year · Closes 15 Nov · Starts as soon as possible · Full time · Pastoral and welfare · The Job:Eden School seek to appoint a Safeguarding & Attendance Officer to start as soon as possible on a term time only permanent contract. The actual salary for this role is…

## Exam results

| Year | Attainment 8 | Grade 5+ Eng. & maths | KS2 expected | KS2 higher |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025/26 provisional | 11.6 | 0.0% | – | – |
| 2024/25 | 13.0 | 8.3% | – | – |
| 2023/24 | 13.1 | 14.3% | 0% | 0% |

Department for Education performance tables. Attainment 8 is the average score across eight GCSE-level subjects (out of 90). Grade 5+ is the share of pupils with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Provisional figures can change when the revised tables are published. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26.

## Inspections

| Date | Inspection | Outcome |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 14 November 2023 | Graded inspection | Good |
| 20 May 2021 | Monitoring visit | Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement |
| 25 March 2021 | Monitoring visit | Leaders and those responsible for governance are taking effective action to provide education in the current circumstances |
| 5 November 2019 | Graded inspection | Requires improvement |

Ofsted. Inspections graded schools Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate until August 2024. From September 2024 there were no overall grades; since November 2025 a report card grades each area: exceptional, strong standard, expected standard, needs attention or urgent improvement.

## Staff

| Year | Teachers | Pupils per teacher | Leavers | Vacancies | Average pay |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025/26 | 8.0 | 8.0 | – | 1 | £50,500 |
| 2024/25 | 9.0 | 6.6 | 22% | 0 | £43,559 |
| 2023/24 | 9.0 | 6.4 | 0% | 0 | £37,725 |
| 2022/23 | 9.0 | 6.3 | 33% | 0 | £37,418 |
| 2021/22 | 7.0 | 7.4 | 0% | 0 | £41,331 |
| 2020/21 | 7.0 | 5.7 | 14% | 0 | £41,404 |

Department for Education, School Workforce Census. Teachers are full-time equivalent. "Leavers" is the share of teachers who moved to another state school or left state schools by the following November, so the latest year has none yet. Vacancies are posts vacant or filled temporarily on census day in November. Average pay is for all teachers, leaders included.

## Attendance

| Year | Sessions missed | Unauthorised | Persistently absent | Severely absent |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025/26 | 33.6% | 17.7% | 73.4% | 26.6% |
| 2024/25 | 26.0% | 8.2% | 58.1% | 19.4% |
| 2023/24 | 24.5% | 9.2% | 57.4% | 19.7% |
| 2022/23 | 21.6% | 6.2% | 52.5% | 13.1% |
| 2021/22 | 22.1% | 5.8% | 53.6% | 14.3% |
| 2020/21 | 21.8% | 9.2% | 51.1% | 15.6% |

Department for Education, pupil absence statistics, autumn and spring terms of each year so years compare. Persistently absent: share of pupils who missed 10% or more of sessions. Severely absent: share who missed half or more. There are no figures for 2019/20 (school closures).

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## Sources

Register details and head: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools. Inspection: Ofsted. Results: Department for Education performance tables. Vacancies: public job services and the school's own website, checked continuously. Nothing here is estimated.

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