Graded inspection · Jul 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Cheshire West and Chester
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Inadequate | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Inadequate | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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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 entry145 applications · 130 places offered · 106 named it first
HistoryEarlier years not shown: formed from, or split from, other schools.
- 2026 1.1; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0
- 2025 1.2; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.1
- 2024 1.2; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0
- 2023 1.0; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.8
- 2022 1.3; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.8
- 2021 1.3; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.9
- 2020 1.2; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.8
- 2019 1.0; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.8
- 2018 1.0; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.6
- 2017 0.9; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.8
- 2016 0.8; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0
- 2015 1.1; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.7
- 2014 1.1; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.6
- This school
- Cheshire West and Chester 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 | 130 | 145 | 1.1 | 106 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2025 | 147 | 179 | 1.2 | 144 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2024 | 171 | 210 | 1.2 | 156 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2023 | 252 | 259 | 1.0 | 214 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2022 | 240 | 304 | 1.3 | 260 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2021 | 206 | 275 | 1.3 | 232 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2020 | 191 | 221 | 1.2 | 181 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2019 | 210 | 214 | 1.0 | 182 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2018 | 191 | 197 | 1.0 | 169 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2017 | 188 | 177 | 0.9 | 163 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2016 | 204 | 166 | 0.8 | 136 | 0.67 |
| Sep 2015 | 136 | 148 | 1.1 | 121 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2014 | 145 | 166 | 1.1 | 144 | 0.99 |
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.) | 217 | 32.0 | 19% | 40% | – |
| 2024/25 | 190 | 30.6 | 14% | 29% | – |
| 2023/24 | 194 | 29.3 | 11% | 27% | −1.10 |
| 2022/23 | 178 | 33.2 | 21% | 38% | −0.85 |
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
- The Winsford AcademyThis schoolThis schoolSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20251.1applications per place 32.0Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · Cheshire West and Chester20262.3applications per place 50.1Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20242.2applications per place 49.7Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · Cheshire EastGood20222.0applications per place 41.3Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20232.5applications per place 49.7Attainment 8
- 7.6 km · Cheshire West and ChesterRemains Good20231.4applications per place 32.2Attainment 8
- 7.8 km · Cheshire West and Chester20262.1applications per place 53.5Attainment 8
- 9.8 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20231.8applications per place 57.5Attainment 8
- 11.1 km · Cheshire EastStandards maintained20252.0applications per place 49.4Attainment 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
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136184 · 896/6906
- Trust
- Halliard Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,312 pupils · 945 on roll
- Free school meals
- 43.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2010
- Address
- Grange Lane, Winsford, CW7 2BT
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources