Secondary
Hawkley Hall High School
Carr Lane, Hawkley Hall, Wigan, WN3 5NY
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1170 of 1184 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
- Local authority
- Wigan
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Trust
- THE ROWAN LEARNING TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 71.3
- All staff (FTE)
- 110.9
- Pupils per adult
- 10.6
- Pupils
- 1,177
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected November 2024
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
February 2019
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
GCSE results
37%
2 points below the Wigan average (39% across 20 schools)
40.4
3.7 below the Wigan average (44.1 across 20 schools)
11th of 20 by our score, among the secondary schools in Wigan we can score - 27 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 40.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.43 |
| Entered the EBacc | 12% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 63% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 37% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 49% |
| 22/23 | 38% |
| 23/24 | 46% |
| 24/25 | 37% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.34 |
| 22/23 | -0.54 |
| 23/24 | -0.14 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 46.6 |
| 22/23 | 41.5 |
| 23/24 | 44.9 |
| 24/25 | 40.4 |
Carr Lane, Hawkley Hall, Wigan, WN3 5NY
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Wigan admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Paul McKendrick
- Address
- Carr Lane, Hawkley Hall, Wigan, WN3 5NY
- Telephone
- 01942204640