Graded inspection · Feb 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Halton
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 entry378 applications · 223 places offered · 216 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Halton median median 2.0
- 2025 1.6; Halton median median 2.0
- 2024 1.8; Halton median median 1.8
- 2023 1.8; Halton median median 1.8
- 2022 1.8; Halton median median 1.7
- 2021 1.8; Halton median median 1.7
- 2020 1.7; Halton median median 1.7
- 2019 1.7; Halton median median 1.3
- 2018 1.9; Halton median median 1.6
- 2017 1.6; Halton median median 1.6
- 2016 1.6; Halton median median 1.6
- 2015 1.9; Halton median median 1.9
- 2014 2.2; Halton median median 1.9
- This school
- Halton 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 | 223 | 378 | 1.7 | 216 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 234 | 377 | 1.6 | 239 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2024 | 237 | 435 | 1.8 | 274 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2023 | 234 | 430 | 1.8 | 258 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2022 | 239 | 422 | 1.8 | 286 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2021 | 233 | 418 | 1.8 | 277 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2020 | 237 | 404 | 1.7 | 257 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2019 | 237 | 408 | 1.7 | 280 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2018 | 210 | 398 | 1.9 | 256 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2017 | 223 | 361 | 1.6 | 222 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 | 220 | 359 | 1.6 | 216 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2015 | 203 | 392 | 1.9 | 201 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2014 | 160 | 359 | 2.2 | 159 | 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.) | 230 | 41.0 | 33% | 56% | – |
| 2024/25 | 233 | 42.5 | 37% | 61% | – |
| 2023/24 | 237 | 43.2 | 37% | 62% | −0.27 |
| 2022/23 | 230 | 46.1 | 45% | 68% | −0.12 |
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 Heath SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · HaltonGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 37.5Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · Halton20262.0applications per place 36.0Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · Halton20261.7applications per place 37.0Attainment 8
- 5.2 km · HaltonGood20242.1applications per place 43.2Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · Cheshire West and ChesterRemains Good20231.4applications per place 46.6Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · HaltonRemains Good20222.4applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · HaltonOutstanding20222.1applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · HaltonGood20243.0applications per place 37.0Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136779 · 876/4103
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,200 pupils · 1,174 on roll
- Free school meals
- 33.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2011
- Replaced
- The Heath School (URN 111400)
- Address
- Clifton Road, Runcorn, WA7 4SY
- Local authority
- Halton
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources