Secondary
Parklands High School
Southport Road, Chorley, PR7 1LL
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1102 of 1116 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Trust
- ASPIRATIONAL FUTURES MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 61.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 95.1
- Pupils per adult
- 11.8
- Pupils
- 1,120
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 May 2023
Good
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
35%
12 points below the Chorley average (47% across 5 schools)
44.4
4.4 below the Chorley average (48.8 across 5 schools)
3rd of 5 by our score, among the secondary schools in Chorley we can score - 6 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 | 44.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.49 |
| Entered the EBacc | 8% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 58% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 35% |
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 | 63% |
| 22/23 | 46% |
| 23/24 | 54% |
| 24/25 | 35% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.31 |
| 22/23 | -0.06 |
| 23/24 | +0.39 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 54.1 |
| 22/23 | 47.9 |
| 23/24 | 50.8 |
| 24/25 | 44.4 |
Southport Road, Chorley, PR7 1LL
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.
Lancashire 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
- Clare Batson
- Address
- Southport Road, Chorley, PR7 1LL
- Telephone
- 01257264596