United Kingdom / Regions / Bolton
Bolton
North West, England · population ~288k · 128 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 106 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Bolton
128 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (106 of 128 here), 90.9% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (0.8% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 128 schools.
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Canon Slade School | Secondary | 1,747 | Not graded | 15/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Turton School | Secondary | 1,606 | Good | 12/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Thornleigh Salesian College | Secondary | 1,576 | Good· | 22/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Westhoughton High School | Secondary | 1,338 | Requires Improvement | 10/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Sharples School | Secondary | 1,218 | Not graded | 08/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Smithills School | Secondary | 1,201 | Requires Improvement | 19/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Harper Green School | Secondary | 1,126 | Good | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ladybridge High School | Secondary | 1,123 | Good | 02/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Essa Academy | Secondary | 1,077 | Good | 19/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Little Lever School | Secondary | 1,064 | Good | 08/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St James's Church of England High School | Secondary | 1,064 | Good | 02/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Joseph's RC High School | Secondary | 1,051 | Not graded | 18/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Bolton St Catherine's Academy | Secondary | 1,020 | Not graded | 11/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Mount St Joseph RC High School a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 901 | Requires Improvement | 24/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
King's Leadership Academy Bolton | Secondary | 899 | Good | 17/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Kearsley Academy | Secondary | 780 | Good | 16/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bolton Muslim Girls School | Secondary | 752 | Not graded | 11/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Bede Academy | Primary | 660 | Good | 24/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Eden Boys' School, Bolton | Secondary | 623 | Outstanding· | 04/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ss Simon & Jude CofE Primary School, Bolton | Primary | 607 | Good | 12/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.