United Kingdom / Regions / Chorley
Chorley
North West, England · population ~119k · 62 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 57 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Chorley
62 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 (57 of 62 here), 94.2% 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.
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 62 schools.
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Rivington and Blackrod High School | Secondary | 1,584 | Good | 14/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Michael's Church of England High School | Secondary | 1,133 | Good | 21/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Parklands High School | Secondary | 1,106 | Good· | 11/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Holy Cross Catholic High School | Secondary | 977 | Good· | 15/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy | Secondary | 963 | Good | 16/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Southlands High School | Secondary | 931 | Requires Improvement | 06/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Albany Academy | Secondary | 722 | Good | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Trinity Church of England/Methodist Primary School, Buckshaw Village | Primary | 589 | Good | 11/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Euxton Primrose Hill Primary School | Primary | 417 | Outstanding | 18/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Balshaw Lane Community Primary School | Primary | 402 | Not graded | 23/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Duke Street Primary School | Primary | 319 | Good | 02/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St George's Church of England Primary School, Chorley | Primary | 313 | Outstanding | 04/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Peter's CofE Primary School Chorley | Primary | 293 | Good | 04/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Coppull Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 292 | Good | 14/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Clayton-le-Woods Manor Road Primary School | Primary | 252 | Good· | 29/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Whittle-le-Woods Church of England Primary School | Primary | 241 | Good· | 05/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Highfield Community Primary School | Primary | 238 | Good | 17/09/2019 | OfstedWebsite |
Chorley St James' Church of England Primary School | Primary | 237 | Outstanding | 13/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Chorley | Primary | 236 | Good | 20/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Buckshaw Primary School | Primary | 225 | Not graded | 13/05/2025 | 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.