North West
Secondary schools in Wigan
138 schools, 48,266 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 36.6.
Ofsted across Wigan
Good66
Outstanding12
Requires improvement2
No overall grade58
80 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 58 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Wigan
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Peter's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Wigan | Good 2024 | 51.1 |
| Golborne High SchoolFoundation school | Warrington | Outstanding 2023 | 50.1 |
| Standish Community High SchoolAcademy converter | Wigan | No grade | 49.7 |
| St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-MakerfieldVoluntary aided school | Wigan | No grade | 49.1 |
| Shevington High SchoolCommunity school | Wigan | No grade | 49 |
| Lowton Church of England High SchoolFoundation school | Warrington | Good 2023 | 47.5 |
| Fred Longworth High SchoolAcademy converter | Manchester | Good 2022 | 45.9 |
| The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form CollegeVoluntary aided school | Wigan | Good 2022 | 45.7 |
| Bedford High SchoolCommunity school | Leigh | Good 2023 | 45.5 |
| Cansfield High SchoolCommunity school | Wigan | Good 2024 | 44.4 |
| St Mary's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Manchester | No grade | 44.2 |
| St John Fisher Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Wigan | Good 2021 | 41.3 |
| The Byrchall High SchoolAcademy converter | Wigan | Good 2022 | 41.3 |
| Hawkley Hall High SchoolAcademy converter | Wigan | No grade | 40.4 |
| Outwood Academy HindleyAcademy sponsor led | Wigan | No grade | 40 |
| Dean Trust Rose BridgeAcademy sponsor led | Wigan | No grade | 39.7 |
| Atherton High SchoolFree schools | Atherton | Good 2024 | 39.3 |
| The Westleigh SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Leigh | Good 2022 | 36.4 |
| Dean Trust WiganAcademy sponsor led | Wigan | Requires improvement 2023 | 33.1 |