United Kingdom / Regions / Cheshire West and Chester
Cheshire West and Chester
North West, England · population ~344k · 157 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 129 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Cheshire West and Chester
157 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 (129 of 157 here), 92% 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 2 schools (1.3% of the LA) have 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 157 schools.
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Upton-by-Chester High School | Secondary | 1,752 | Not graded | 05/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Neston High School | Secondary | 1,724 | Good· | 09/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Whitby High School | Secondary | 1,477 | Good | 24/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Christleton High School | Secondary | 1,386 | Good | 08/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Bishop Heber High School | Secondary | 1,282 | Good | 01/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Helsby High School | Secondary | 1,235 | Good· | 19/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Nicholas Catholic High School | Secondary | 1,220 | Good | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High School | Secondary | 1,203 | Good | 30/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Tarporley High School and Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,186 | Good | 25/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Weaverham High School | Secondary | 1,160 | Good· | 11/03/2020 | OfstedWebsite |
Hartford Church of England High School | Secondary | 1,070 | Good | 20/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The County High School, Leftwich | Secondary | 1,048 | Outstanding· | 27/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Winsford Academy | Secondary | 1,023 | Not graded | 15/07/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Ellesmere Port Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 969 | Requires Improvement | 23/06/2021 | Ofsted |
The Catholic High School, Chester | Secondary | 808 | Good· | 01/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen's Park High School | Secondary | 785 | Not graded | 04/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Blacon High School, A Specialist Sports College | Secondary | 705 | Requires Improvement | 28/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ellesmere Port Church of England College | Secondary | 694 | Good | 28/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Rudheath Senior Academy | Secondary | 590 | Good· | 12/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Winsford High Street Community Primary School | Primary | 525 | Good· | 09/02/2023 | 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.