Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Wigan
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry478 applications · 199 places offered · 238 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.4; Wigan median median 2.1
- 2025 2.7; Wigan median median 2.2
- 2024 2.3; Wigan median median 2.2
- 2023 2.3; Wigan median median 2.1
- 2022 2.2; Wigan median median 2.0
- 2021 2.1; Wigan median median 2.0
- 2020 2.4; Wigan median median 1.9
- 2019 2.4; Wigan median median 2.0
- 2018 2.0; Wigan median median 2.0
- 2017 2.0; Wigan median median 2.0
- 2016 2.1; Wigan median median 2.1
- 2015 2.6; Wigan median median 2.1
- 2014 2.4; Wigan median median 2.2
- This school
- Wigan median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 199 | 478 | 2.4 | 238 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2025 | 191 | 522 | 2.7 | 255 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2024 | 202 | 458 | 2.3 | 219 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2023 | 199 | 451 | 2.3 | 213 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2022 | 196 | 431 | 2.2 | 221 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2021 | 197 | 414 | 2.1 | 215 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2020 | 202 | 492 | 2.4 | 235 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2019 | 201 | 472 | 2.4 | 250 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2018 | 199 | 394 | 2.0 | 219 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2017 | 205 | 410 | 2.0 | 212 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2016 | 199 | 414 | 2.1 | 211 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2015 | 178 | 454 | 2.6 | 205 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2014 | 179 | 434 | 2.4 | 200 | 1.12 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 199 | 49.2 | 47% | 75% | – |
| 2024/25 | 207 | 51.1 | 52% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 215 | 51.6 | 56% | 78% | −0.12 |
| 2022/23 | 204 | 51.4 | 55% | 78% | −0.25 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Peter's Catholic High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.4applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 0.8 km · Wigan20261.2applications per place 37.5Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · LancashireRemains Good20232.5applications per place 50.0Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · Wigan20262.1applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 20263.0applications per place 45.2Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · Wigan20263.5applications per place 50.4Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · WiganGraded · no overall grade20241.6applications per place 41.9Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · Wigan20262.0applications per place 51.9Attainment 8
- 6.0 km · WiganGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 106537 · 359/4614
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,040 pupils · 1,026 on roll
- Free school meals
- 12.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- Howards Lane, Orrell, Wigan, WN5 8NU
- Local authority
- Wigan
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources