Schools in Halton
70 schools in the Halton local authority.
Schools
70
Open schools
Pupils
18,398
2025–26 census
Good or better
88%
51 of 58 graded
Academic Performance
4.4
out of 10 · 66 schools
Ofsted ratings
- Outstanding
- 5 9%
- Good
- 46 79%
- Requires improvement
- 5 9%
- Inadequate
- 2 3%
5 inspected since 2024, no overall grade6 superseded by a report card7 not judged3 in a category of concern1 safeguarding not effective
4.4
Academic PerformanceAveraged over 66 of 70 schools that can be scored
Pupils
18,398
pupils on roll
Boys 52%48% Girls
Ethnicity
White
91%Asian
<1%Black
1%Mixed
4%Chinese
<1%Any other group
1%Unclassified
2%Ethnicity from 66 of 70 schools (18,314 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.
Pupil characteristics
- Free school meals
- 39.0%
- First language not English
- 5.7%
- Young carers
- 2.6%
7,144 of 18,314 pupils · 66 of 70 schools
1,037 of 18,314 pupils · 66 of 70 schools
477 of 18,123 pupils · 63 of 70 schools
Schools by phase
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 8
- Special
- 5
- Nursery
- 3
- PRU
- 1
- Not recorded
- 4
Top primary schools in Halton
The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.
- 1.St Bede's Catholic Infant SchoolHalton · Primary9.4/10Outstanding
- 2.Moorfield Primary SchoolHalton · Primary8.9/10Good
- 3.Castle View Primary SchoolHalton · Primary8.7/10Good
- 4.Daresbury Primary SchoolHalton · Primary8.4/10Good
- 5.Lunts Heath Primary SchoolHalton · Primary8.4/10
- 6.Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolHalton · Primary8.2/10Good
- 7.Moore Primary SchoolHalton · Primary7.9/10Good
- 8.St Bede's Catholic Junior SchoolHalton · Primary7.6/10Good
- 9.Windmill Hill Primary SchoolHalton · Primary7.6/10Good
- 10.Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary SchoolHalton · Primary7.5/10Good
- 11.St Edward's Catholic Primary SchoolHalton · Primary6.9/10
- 12.St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolHalton · Primary6.9/10Good
- 13.Gorsewood Primary SchoolHalton · Primary6.8/10Good
- 14.St Michaels Catholic Primary SchoolHalton · Primary6.5/10Good
- 15.Hale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolHalton · Primary6.4/10Good
- 16.Fairfield Primary SchoolHalton · Primary6.2/10Good
- 17.St Clement's Catholic Primary SchoolHalton · Primary6.2/10Good
- 18.St John Fisher Catholic Primary SchoolHalton · Primary6.2/10Good
- 19.Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary SchoolHalton · Primary6.0/10Good
- 20.Hillview Primary SchoolHalton · Primary5.6/10Good
Top secondary schools in Halton
The highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.
- 1.Wade Deacon High SchoolHalton · Secondary9.7/10Outstanding
- 2.Sandymoor Ormiston Academy Halton · Secondary4.0/10Good
- 3.The Heath SchoolHalton · Secondary3.3/10
- 4.Ormiston Chadwick AcademyHalton · Secondary2.8/10Good
- 5.Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High SchoolHalton · Secondary2.5/10Good
- 6.The Grange SchoolHalton · Secondary1.5/10Good
- 7.Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic and Church of England AcademyHalton · Secondary1.4/10
- 8.Ormiston Bolingbroke AcademyHalton · Secondary0.2/10Requires improvement
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About schools in Halton
- How many schools are there in Halton?
- Halton has 70 open schools — 49 primary, 8 secondary, 5 special, 3 nursery, teaching 18,398 pupils in total.
- How many schools in Halton are rated Good or Outstanding?
- 51 of the 58 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 88% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 5 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 70: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
- What is the average Academic Performance in Halton?
- 4.4 out of 10, averaged across the 66 schools here that can be scored, where 5 is the national average. Academic Performance combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment and is ranked against comparable schools, so it is neither figure on its own.
- Why do some Halton schools have no Ofsted rating?
- 12 schools in Halton currently hold no overall grade. Ofsted stopped awarding single-word judgements in September 2024 and moved to a report card of separately graded areas, so schools inspected since then have no overall rating whatever the inspection found. Their profiles show the report card instead.
- What does Halton local authority do?
- A local authority is the body responsible for state education in its area — the level most admissions and school-place decisions are made at. Halton covers 70 schools and sits in the North West region. It does not run academies or independent schools directly, though it still coordinates admissions for most of them.
- How many pupils in Halton are eligible for free school meals?
- 39.0% — 7,144 of 18,314 pupils at the 66 schools that report it. Independent schools file a return with roll and sex only, so they are outside this figure rather than counted as zero.
Part of the North West region.