Secondary
King's Leadership Academy Warrington
Hillock Lane, Woolston, Warrington, WA1 4PF
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Free schools
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 804 of 840 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Trust
- THE GREAT SCHOOLS TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 42.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 53.0
- Pupils per adult
- 14.9
- Pupils
- 789
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 February 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Outstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. 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.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
65%
20 points above the Warrington average (45% across 15 schools)
56.0
8.8 above the Warrington average (47.2 across 15 schools)
1st of 15 by our score, among the secondary schools in Warrington we can score - 16 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 | 56 |
| EBacc average point score | 5.28 |
| Entered the EBacc | 97% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 88% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 65% |
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 | 70% |
| 22/23 | 68% |
| 23/24 | 63% |
| 24/25 | 65% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.51 |
| 22/23 | +0.32 |
| 23/24 | +0.50 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 58.6 |
| 22/23 | 57.3 |
| 23/24 | 56.4 |
| 24/25 | 56.0 |
Hillock Lane, Woolston, Warrington, WA1 4PF
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.
Warrington 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
- Principal
- Umar Hussain
- Address
- Hillock Lane, Woolston, Warrington, WA1 4PF
- Telephone
- 01925817939