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Secondary school in Lymm, Warrington

Lymm High School

Oughtrington Lane, Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 0RB

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form Full
School website 01925755458

Ofsted

Goodas at 5 March 2024

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 5 March 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

59.7 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

69% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

87% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

29% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.71confidence interval 0.55 to 0.87

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
36.6

England average 32.3

A level students
173

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1937
Places
1909
How full
Full — 1937 pupils against 1909 places
Girls / boys
962 / 975
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
15%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
11%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
5%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
10%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
95%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
54%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
305

After sixth form

Went to university
64%

England 50%

In education, work or training
95%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
190

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

32% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
75%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
202

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Warrington 021B, 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
58%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
7%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
84%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
5%

England 17%

Households with no car
9%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
LYMM HIGH SCHOOL
Headteacher
Headteacher: Gwyn Williams
Local authority
Warrington
Ward
Lymm South
Constituency
Tatton
URN
138732

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Broadoak SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 42.4 2.7 mi
King's Leadership Academy WarringtonFree schools No grade 56 3.7 mi
Birchwood Community High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 47.9 3.9 mi
Altrincham Grammar School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 80.6 4.1 mi
Irlam and Cadishead AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 43.6 4.1 mi
Loreto Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 73.7 4.3 mi
Cardinal Newman Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 41.9 4.3 mi
North Cestrian SchoolFree schools No grade 54.2 4.3 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Highsted Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 61.1
Wirral Grammar School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 69.3
Woodford County High SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 80.1
Chailey SchoolCommunity school No grade 49.3
Hockerill Anglo-European CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 61.7
Holcombe Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 62.4
Wallington High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 80.5
Queens' SchoolAcademy converter No grade 57.5

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, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • 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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