United Kingdom / Regions / Wigan
Wigan
North West, England · population ~331k · 126 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 102 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Wigan
126 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 (102 of 126 here), 97.5% 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 126 schools.
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St Mary's Catholic High School | Secondary | 1,561 | Not graded | 09/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,372 | Good· | 19/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Standish Community High School | Secondary | 1,292 | Good· | 14/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Fred Longworth High School | Secondary | 1,288 | Good· | 19/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield | Secondary | 1,202 | Good· | 17/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Hawkley Hall High School | Secondary | 1,164 | Not graded | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Golborne High School | Secondary | 1,147 | Outstanding | 11/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Bedford High School | Secondary | 1,101 | Good | 03/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Byrchall High School | Secondary | 1,075 | Good | 13/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Cansfield High School | Secondary | 1,036 | Good | 12/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Peter's Catholic High School | Secondary | 1,033 | Good | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St John Fisher Catholic High School | Secondary | 994 | Good· | 11/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
The Westleigh School | Secondary | 957 | Good | 08/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Outwood Academy Hindley | Secondary | 921 | Not graded | 03/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Shevington High School | Secondary | 878 | Good· | 16/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Lowton Church of England High School | Secondary | 819 | Good | 21/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Dean Trust Wigan | Secondary | 770 | Requires Improvement | 17/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Dean Trust Rose Bridge | Secondary | 699 | Not graded | 25/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Standish St Wilfrid's Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | 586 | Outstanding | 18/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Atherton High School | Secondary | 547 | Good | 24/01/2024 | 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.