Schools in Warrington
90 schools in the Warrington local authority.
Schools
90
Open schools
Pupils
31,467
2025–26 census
Good or better
100%
73 of 73 graded
Academic Performance
6.2
out of 10 · 83 schools
Ofsted ratings
- Outstanding
- 7 10%
- Good
- 66 90%
- Requires improvement
- 0 0%
- Inadequate
- 0 0%
8 inspected since 2024, no overall grade6 superseded by a report card9 not judged
6.2
Academic PerformanceAveraged over 83 of 90 schools that can be scored
Pupils
31,467
pupils on roll
Boys 52%48% Girls
Roll from 85 of 90 schools (31,467 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.
Ethnicity
White
82%Asian
4%Black
2%Mixed
4%Chinese
5%Any other group
1%Unclassified
1%Ethnicity from 83 of 90 schools (31,355 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.
Pupil characteristics
- Free school meals
- 23.8%
- First language not English
- 16.1%
- Young carers
- <1%
7,449 of 31,355 pupils · 83 of 90 schools
5,041 of 31,355 pupils · 83 of 90 schools
208 of 31,253 pupils · 82 of 90 schools
Schools by phase
- Primary
- 69
- Secondary
- 13
- Special
- 4
- Nursery
- 1
- PRU
- 1
- Not recorded
- 2
Top primary schools in Warrington
The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.
- 1.Evelyn Street Primary Academy and NurseryWarrington · Primary10.0/10Outstanding
- 2.Barrow Hall Community Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary9.6/10Outstanding
- 3.St Peter's Catholic Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary9.6/10Outstanding
- 4.Sacred Heart Catholic Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary9.5/10Outstanding
- 5.Bruche Primary School AcademyWarrington · Primary9.0/10Good
- 6.Chapelford Village Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary9.0/10Good
- 7.Grappenhall Heys Community Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary9.0/10
- 8.St Monica's Catholic Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary9.0/10
- 9.Stretton St Matthew's CofE Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary9.0/10
- 10.Woolston CofE Aided Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary8.8/10Good
- 11.Cherry Tree SchoolWarrington · Primary8.7/10Good
- 12.Penketh Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary8.7/10Good
- 13.Ravenbank Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary8.7/10Good
- 14.Great Sankey Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary8.5/10Good
- 15.Christ Church CofE Primary School PadgateWarrington · Primary8.4/10Good
- 16.St Helen's Church of England Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary8.4/10Good
- 17.St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary8.1/10Good
- 18.Statham Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary8.0/10Good
- 19.Stockton Heath Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary8.0/10Good
- 20.Alderman Bolton Primary SchoolWarrington · Primary7.7/10Good
Top secondary schools in Warrington
The highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.
- 1.King's Leadership Academy WarringtonWarrington · Secondary9.8/10Outstanding
- 2.Lymm High SchoolWarrington · Secondary8.7/10Good
- 3.Bridgewater High SchoolWarrington · Secondary7.9/10Good
- 4.Culcheth High SchoolWarrington · Secondary7.8/10Good
- 5.St Gregory's Catholic High SchoolWarrington · Secondary7.7/10Good
- 6.Great Sankey High SchoolWarrington · Secondary7.4/10Good
- 7.Birchwood Community High SchoolWarrington · Secondary6.8/10
- 8.Penketh High SchoolWarrington · Secondary6.6/10Good
- 9.Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High SchoolWarrington · Secondary5.9/10Good
- 10.Beamont Collegiate AcademyWarrington · Secondary5.7/10Good
- 11.Cardinal Newman Catholic High SchoolWarrington · Secondary2.4/10Good
- 12.Padgate Academy Warrington · Secondary2.2/10Good
- 13.UTC WarringtonWarrington · Secondary1.2/10
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About schools in Warrington
- How many schools are there in Warrington?
- Warrington has 90 open schools — 69 primary, 13 secondary, 4 special, 1 nursery, teaching 31,467 pupils in total.
- How many schools in Warrington are rated Good or Outstanding?
- 73 of the 73 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 100% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 7 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 90: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
- What is the average Academic Performance in Warrington?
- 6.2 out of 10, averaged across the 83 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 Warrington schools have no Ofsted rating?
- 17 schools in Warrington 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 Warrington 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. Warrington covers 90 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 Warrington are eligible for free school meals?
- 23.8% — 7,449 of 31,355 pupils at the 83 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.