Blackpool Skills Academy
Blackpool Skills Academy is an independent special school in Blackpool for boys and girls aged 11 to 16. It has 35 pupils and room for 50.
Stanley House, Stanley Road, Blackpool, FY1 4QL0125375985blackpoolskillsacademy.co.ukDavid Hodge headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet. That is normal for a school that opened in 2025: new schools usually get their first inspection within three years.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Blackpool council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackpool St John's Church of England Primary School | Church of England | 430 m | 207 | No overall grade 2025 | 59 | Compare |
| Tower Learning Centre Independent School | Independent | 730 m | 19 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Revoe Learning Academy | Academy | 780 m | 436 | Good 2024 | 13 | Compare |
| BFC School | Independent | 950 m | 24 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School | Academy | 990 m | 210 | Not inspected | 18 | Compare |
| Woodlands School | Council | 0.7 miles | 111 | Good 2024 | – | Compare |
| Park Community Academy | Academy | 0.7 miles | 340 | Outstanding 2023 | – | Compare |
| Devonshire Primary Academy | Academy | 0.7 miles | 451 | No overall grade 2024 | 35 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Blackpool Skills Academy a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Blackpool Skills Academy yet.
How many pupils does Blackpool Skills Academy have?
35 pupils aged 11 to 16 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 50 places, so it is 70% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Stanley House, Stanley Road, Blackpool, FY1 4QL
- Telephone
- 0125375985
- Website
- www.blackpoolskillsacademy.co.uk
- Headteacher
- David Hodge
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 11-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Blackpool
- Ward
- Talbot
- Constituency
- Blackpool South
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 29 August 2025 (new provision)
- URN
- 151774 · LAESTAB 8906014
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.