Graded inspection · Nov 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in LancashireSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| 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 entry432 applications · 133 places offered · 176 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.3; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2025 2.9; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2024 3.2; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2023 3.5; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2022 3.6; Lancashire median median 2.5
- 2021 3.9; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2020 4.0; Lancashire median median 2.8
- 2019 4.2; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2018 4.0; Lancashire median median 2.6
- 2017 3.4; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2016 3.5; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2015 3.0; Lancashire median median 2.7
- 2014 3.2; Lancashire median median 2.6
- This school
- Lancashire 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 | 133 | 432 | 3.3 | 176 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2025 | 135 | 387 | 2.9 | 163 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2024 | 139 | 448 | 3.2 | 181 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2023 | 139 | 492 | 3.5 | 198 | 1.42 |
| Sep 2022 | 137 | 486 | 3.6 | 162 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2021 | 135 | 528 | 3.9 | 191 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2020 | 137 | 541 | 4.0 | 202 | 1.47 |
| Sep 2019 | 140 | 592 | 4.2 | 227 | 1.62 |
| Sep 2018 | 137 | 547 | 4.0 | 221 | 1.61 |
| Sep 2017 | 135 | 465 | 3.4 | 162 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2016 | 140 | 495 | 3.5 | 162 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2015 | 138 | 408 | 3.0 | 139 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2014 | 141 | 452 | 3.2 | 182 | 1.29 |
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.) | 141 | 54.0 | 59% | 82% | – |
| 2024/25 | 141 | 55.0 | 65% | 85% | – |
| 2023/24 | 137 | 51.6 | 51% | 76% | +0.41 |
| 2022/23 | 138 | 53.9 | 63% | 85% | +0.35 |
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 Bede's Catholic High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20243.3applications per place 54.0Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 42.3Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · LancashireGood20222.7applications per place 42.6Attainment 8
- 6.2 km · SeftonGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 44.1Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · Sefton20262.3applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · LancashireGood20222.4applications per place 41.6Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 39.5Attainment 8
- 7.3 km · Sefton20263.1applications per place 38.4Attainment 8
- 7.5 km · LancashireGraded · no overall grade202535.5Attainment 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
- 119792 · 888/4631
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 689 pupils · 709 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- St Anne's Road, Ormskirk, L39 4TA
- Local authority
- Lancashire · West Lancashire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources