Secondary school in St. Helens
De La Salle School
Mill Brow, Eccleston, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10 4QH
Ofsted
Graded Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 6 June 2023.
Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.
Pupils
- Pupils on roll
- 1180
- Places
- 1200
- How full
- Nearly full — 1180 of 1200 places taken
- Girls / boys
- 606 / 574
- Overall absence
- 9%
- Persistently absent
- 26%
secondary schools average 8.6%
secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions
- Free school meals, last 6 years
- 25%
- English as an additional language
- 4%
- With an EHC plan
- 5%
- On SEN support
- 17%
England 25.7%
England 18.7%
England 3.5%
England 15%
The neighbourhood around the school
Census 2021 figures for St. Helens 009A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.
- Adults with a degree
- 41%
- Adults with no qualifications
- 12%
- Households owning their home
- 86%
- Households in social housing
- 8%
- Households with no car
- 9%
- Adults economically inactive
- 42%
England 33.8%
England 18.3%
England 62.7%
England 17%
England 21.9%
England 39.9%
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- Ages 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery
- No
- Boarding
- Day school
- Trust
- THE LAETARE CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Headteacher
- Headteacher: Andrew Rannard
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Ward
- Eccleston
- Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston
- URN
- 150833
The unique reference number used in all official school data.
Nearest secondary schools
| School | Ofsted | Attainment 8 | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowley International CollegeCommunity school | No grade | 39.3 | 1.1 mi |
| The Prescot SchoolAcademy converter | Requires improvement 2024 | 35.5 | 2.4 mi |
| The Sutton AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Good 2022 | 43.1 | 2.5 mi |
| St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic AcademyAcademy sponsor led | No grade | 42.6 | 2.6 mi |
| Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Requires improvement 2024 | 30.2 | 2.7 mi |
| St Cuthbert's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Good 2022 | 34.5 | 3 mi |
| Rainhill High SchoolAcademy converter | Good 2023 | 45.9 | 3.1 mi |
| Tower CollegeOther independent school | No grade | — | 3.4 mi |
Where these figures come from
- School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
- Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25.
- Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
- Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
- Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.
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