The Grange School
Academy · ages 3–16 · no sixth form
Above average on 1 of the four headline measures, below on 2 — 6th of 8 for average grade in Halton.
Runcorn · Halton · one of 8 state secondaries
Summary
The Grange School sits 6th of 8 state secondaries in Halton for average GCSE grade. 39.5% of its pupils passed both English and maths, against 59.1% across Halton. 23.7% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject only English Literature and geography sits measurably behind Halton. Ofsted: Good in May 2022.
It is an academy of 1,200 pupils, taking ages 3 to 16. 53% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, a high share by national standards, and 19.3% are on SEN support with a further 5.3% holding an education, health and care plan. 36.8% were entered for the full EBacc, more than the 23.8% entered across Halton, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push, and 14.9% took the separate sciences rather than combined. 33% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, worse than the 28.7% across Halton, and 79% of its leavers went on to further education.
Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against Halton, and count as ahead or behind only where the gap is wider than the year-to-year swing that entry group would produce.
The school·Halton
Inspection
Good
Inspected May 2022
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Early years
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- May 2022 Full inspection Good
That grade was given under the framework that ran from September 2019 to 2024, when Ofsted still issued one overall grade.
Attendance
33% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, against 29% across Halton and 21% nationally. The comparators are the median secondary school, not an average.
GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25
Attainment
After Year 11
79% stayed in education, 4% started an apprenticeship (2022/23 leavers)
GCSE results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching grade 4 or above · a standard pass, the old grade C
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What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- The EBacc
- A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
- Progress 8
- A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
- Percentage points
- The gap between two percentages. A subject going from 30% to 36% has risen six percentage points, though it has risen by a fifth. We write "pp" to keep the two apart.
- Why some subjects say nothing
- A year group is small. Where a gap is no bigger than the swing a different intake would produce, we say the subjects are level rather than dressing chance as a finding. Two kinds of subject carry no share at all: a vocational award has no 9-to-1 grade to report, and some qualifications are not published on the 9-to-1 scale for a given year group, most often community languages sat outside the school's own timetable.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
School details
Latham Avenue
Runcorn
Cheshire
WA7 5DX
- Head
- Mr Jamie Jardine
- Trust
- Wade Deacon Trust
- Pupils
- 1,200 of 1,553 places
- Spare places
- 27%
- Free school meals
- 53%
- SEND
- 19% on SEN support, 5% with an EHC plan
- Separate sciences
- 15% of the year
- Progress 8
- Not published · last -0.84 in 2023/24
Other schools in Halton
7 schools. Distances are straight-line from this school.