United Kingdom / Regions / St. Helens
St. Helens
North West, England · population ~181k · 70 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 53 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in St. Helens
70 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 (53 of 70 here), 88.6% 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 (2.9% 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 70 schools.
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Rainhill High School | Secondary | 1,810 | Good | 22/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Rainford High School | Secondary | 1,675 | Good· | 15/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Cowley International College | Secondary | 1,498 | Good· | 24/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
The Sutton Academy | Secondary | 1,451 | Good | 14/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hope Academy | Secondary | 1,288 | Not graded | 12/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
De La Salle School | Secondary | 1,185 | Requires Improvement | 06/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Cuthbert's Catholic High School | Secondary | 876 | Good· | 06/07/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Outwood Academy Haydock | Secondary | 819 | Not graded | 01/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Broad Oak Community Primary School | Primary | 644 | Not graded | 01/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Thatto Heath Community Primary School | Primary | 609 | Good | 24/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Newton-le-Willows Primary School | Primary | 602 | Good· | 23/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Bleak Hill Primary School | Primary | 581 | Outstanding | 30/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy | Secondary | 548 | Not graded | 03/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Legh Vale Primary School | Primary | 473 | Not graded | 15/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Allanson Street Primary School | Primary | 448 | Good· | 15/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Wargrave CofE Primary School | Primary | 429 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Sherdley Primary School | Primary | 421 | Good· | 18/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Ann's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 412 | Not graded | 25/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Eccleston Mere Primary School | Primary | 403 | Good | 25/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School | Primary | 400 | Good | 01/03/2023 | 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.