Gorsewood Primary School
Runcorn, WA7 6ES · Halton local authority
Runcorn’s School Grade C− better than 15% of towns in England
What stands out about Gorsewood Primary School
- Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 31% of England’s primary schools
- 56% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6 points below England’s schools
- 63% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, May 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (18 of 18)
- Homes in its postcode sector (WA7 6) sold for a median £166,250; Runcorn’s is £175,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 56%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 31% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Halton avg 59%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 20 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Gorsewood Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (2). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Halton council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Halton council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Runcorn and Halton, side by side
2023–2025All 47 graded primaries in Halton. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Runcorn’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moorfield Primary School | A+ | 13% | 89% |
| Castle View Primary School | A+ | 51% | 86% |
| Moore Primary School | A | 4% | 78% |
| Daresbury Primary School | A | 10% | 77% |
| Lunts Heath Primary School | A− | 10% | 75% |
| Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School | A− | 52% | 75% |
| Windmill Hill Primary School | A− | 58% | 73% |
| Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary School | A− | 7% | 73% |
| St Clement's Catholic Primary School | A− | 24% | 72% |
| St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School | A− | 41% | 71% |
| St Berteline's CofE Primary School | B+ | 19% | 68% |
| St Michaels Catholic Primary & Nursery School | B | 45% | 67% |
| Victoria Road Primary School | B | 32% | 66% |
| Hale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | B | 24% | 66% |
| St Bede's Catholic Junior School | B | 33% | 66% |
| Fairfield Primary School | B | 32% | 65% |
| St John Fisher Catholic Primary School | B | 33% | 65% |
| Woodside Primary School | B− | 72% | 63% |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School | B− | 23% | 63% |
| Pewithall School | B− | 17% | 62% |
| Beechwood Primary School | B− | 21% | 61% |
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | B− | 41% | 61% |
| St Michael with St Thomas CE Primary School | B− | 43% | 61% |
| Halton Lodge Nursery & Primary School | B− | 64% | 61% |
| Hillview Primary School | C+ | 19% | 60% |
| All Saints Upton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | C+ | 55% | 60% |
| St Edward's Catholic Primary School | C+ | 28% | 59% |
| Weston Primary School | C | 15% | 57% |
| St Martin's Catholic Primary School and Preschool | C | 42% | 57% |
| St Basil's Catholic Primary School | C | 59% | 57% |
| Gorsewood Primary School | C | 63% | 56% |
| The Grange School | C | 53% | 56% |
| Palace Fields Primary Academy | C | 49% | 55% |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School | C | 47% | 55% |
| Brookvale Primary School | C− | 44% | 53% |
| Widnes Academy | C− | 45% | 52% |
| Murdishaw West Primary and Nursery School | C− | 71% | 49% |
| Ditton Primary School | C− | 49% | 49% |
| Kingsway Primary Academy School | C− | 74% | 49% |
| Astmoor Primary School | D | 69% | 45% |
| Bridgewater Park Primary School | D | 59% | 45% |
| The Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School | D | 48% | 43% |
| Westfield Primary School | D | 48% | 42% |
| Halebank CofE Primary School | D− | 60% | 35% |
| Runcorn All Saints CofE Primary School | D− | 55% | 35% |
| Oakfield Community Primary School | D− | 46% | 33% |
| The Brow Community Primary School | D− | 51% | 29% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025175 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Gorsewood Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, May 2023.
Living near Gorsewood Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in WA7 6, the school’s postcode sector
Runcorn property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in WA7 6 sell for a little under Runcorn’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
14 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Runcorn, WA7 6ES
Gorsewood Primary School: common questions
Is Gorsewood Primary School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 31% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 56% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, May 2023.
How hard is it to get into Gorsewood Primary School?
For September 2026, 18 families put Gorsewood Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 21 places were offered in all.
What is Gorsewood Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (May 2023).
How much do houses cost near Gorsewood Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, WA7 6, sold for a median £166,250 over the 36 months to August 2026 (324 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Runcorn’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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