United Kingdom / Regions / West Lancashire
West Lancashire
North West, England · population ~114k · 68 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 55 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in West Lancashire
68 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 (55 of 68 here), 93.1% 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 68 schools.
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Ormskirk School | Secondary | 1,212 | Not graded | 07/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Up Holland High School | Secondary | 861 | Good· | 24/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lathom High School : A Technology College | Secondary | 793 | Good | 14/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Burscough Priory Academy | Secondary | 707 | Good | 22/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Bede's Catholic High School | Secondary | 706 | Not graded | 12/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Tarleton Academy | Secondary | 675 | Good· | 13/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Holland Moor Primary School | Primary | 430 | Good | 26/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Ormskirk Church of England Primary School | Primary | 401 | Not graded | 09/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ormskirk St Anne's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 370 | Good | 19/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Woodland Community Primary School | Primary | 350 | Requires Improvement | 08/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Aughton Town Green Primary School | Primary | 313 | Good | 25/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Cobbs Brow School | Primary | 312 | Not graded | 25/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Moorside Community Primary Academy School | Primary | 255 | Good | 19/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Trinity Church of England/Methodist School | Primary | 242 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Tarleton Community Primary School | Primary | 237 | Good· | 01/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St James' Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale | Primary | 235 | Good | 22/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Richard's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale | Primary | 228 | Not graded | 24/09/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Delph Side Community Primary School | Primary | 227 | Good· | 01/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Maharishi Free School | Secondary | 224 | Good· | 08/07/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Thomas the Martyr Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School | Primary | 219 | Good· | 22/02/2023 | 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.