Blackfen School for Girls

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We've chosen 30 similar schools to benchmark this school against running cost categories, which includes all staffing (excluding premises staff), ICT, consultancy and catering.

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  • number of pupils
  • pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM)
  • pupils with special educational needs (SEN), or proportion of various SEN provisions for special schools
Schools we've chosen
School Type Number of pupils Pupils with special educational needs Pupils eligible for free school meals
Blackfen School for Girls
(Your chosen school)
Secondary 1,403 10% 13.1%
Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College
Sandbach, CW11 3NT
Secondary 1,358 6.9% 12.2%
Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School
Ramsgate, CT11 7PS
Secondary 1,388 8.9% 13.8%
The Broxbourne School
Broxbourne, EN10 7FU
Secondary 1,415 9.6% 10.5%
The Petersfield School
Petersfield, GU32 3LU
Secondary 1,385 13.9% 12.6%
Tolworth Girls' School and Sixth Form
Surbiton, KT6 7EY
Secondary 1,487 8.3% 15.2%
The London Oratory School
London, SW6 1RX
Secondary 1,398 10.7% 10.3%
Vandyke Upper School
Leighton Buzzard, LU7 3DY
Secondary 1,507 9.9% 12.7%
Oaklands Catholic School
Waterlooville, PO7 7BW
Secondary 1,370 12.7% 14%
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School
Crewe, CW4 7DX
Secondary 1,323 10.1% 11.9%
Wellsway School
Bristol, BS31 1PH
Secondary 1,327 11.5% 11.6%
Harris Academy Chafford Hundred
Grays, RM16 6SA
Secondary 1,383 12.4% 13.1%
Birchwood High School
Bishop's Stortford, CM23 5BD
Secondary 1,454 12.9% 14.6%
Higham Lane School
Nuneaton, CV10 0BJ
Secondary 1,479 11.5% 14.4%
St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon
Blaydon-on-Tyne, NE21 4BQ
Secondary 1,402 9.1% 15.9%
The Boswells School
Chelmsford, CM1 6LY
Secondary 1,411 12.5% 14.5%
Blenheim High School
Epsom, KT19 9BH
Secondary 1,394 10.8% 14.2%
The Stanway School
Colchester, CO3 0QA
Secondary 1,385 12.6% 13.6%
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
Sutton Coldfield, B74 2NH
Secondary 1,413 7.4% 12.4%
De Lisle College Loughborough Leicestershire
Loughborough, LE11 4SQ
Secondary 1,345 11.6% 13.7%
Brookvale Groby Learning Campus
Leicester, LE6 0FP
Secondary 1,431 9.5% 11.9%
Notre Dame High School
Sheffield, S10 3BT
Secondary 1,494 9.4% 15.2%
Teddington School
Teddington, TW11 9PJ
Secondary 1,385 10.4% 15.3%
Painsley Catholic College
Stoke-on-Trent, ST10 1LH
Secondary 1,318 9.4% 11.5%
Silverdale School
Sheffield, S11 9QH
Secondary 1,452 11.2% 11.4%
The Castle School
Bristol, BS35 1HT
Secondary 1,453 10% 12.5%
Alsager School
Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 2HR
Secondary 1,521 9% 13.4%
South Bromsgrove High
Bromsgrove, B60 3NL
Secondary 1,355 9.7% 11.7%
Harris Academy Sutton
Sutton, SM2 5RD
Secondary 1,297 13.3% 10.9%
The Bulmershe School
Reading, RG5 3EU
Secondary 1,506 9.1% 14.8%