Secondary
Penketh High School
Heath Road, Penketh, Warrington, WA5 2BY
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1058 of 1200 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
- Local authority
- Warrington
- SEN provision
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- THE CHALLENGE ACADEMY TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.2
- All staff (FTE)
- 81.8
- Pupils per adult
- 11.8
- Pupils
- 966
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 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
SafeguardingMet
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
47%
2 points above the Warrington average (45% across 15 schools)
46.5
0.7 below the Warrington average (47.2 across 15 schools)
8th 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 | 46.5 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.32 |
| Entered the EBacc | 68% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 65% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 47% |
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 | 44% |
| 22/23 | 41% |
| 23/24 | 44% |
| 24/25 | 47% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.61 |
| 22/23 | -0.41 |
| 23/24 | -0.22 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 45.6 |
| 22/23 | 45.2 |
| 23/24 | 45.5 |
| 24/25 | 46.5 |
Heath Road, Penketh, Warrington, WA5 2BY
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
- Headteacher
- John Carlin
- Address
- Heath Road, Penketh, Warrington, WA5 2BY
- Telephone
- 01925722298