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Woolston Brook School

Special schoolAges 7–16Community

Warrington, WA1 4JL · Warrington local authority

Warrington’s School Grade A− better than 81% of towns in England

How full
73 pupils
91% of its 80 places
Free school meals
77%
77 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Woolston Brook School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 77% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, April 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (WA1 4) sold for a median £270,000; Warrington’s is £242,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 16 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Woolston Brook beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 11.4

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Warrington avg 49.2

20304050607080England avg 47.3Woolston Brook 11.4

Grade 5+ in English and maths 6%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Warrington avg 50%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Woolston Brook 6%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
3.5
2024/25
10.1
2025/26
11.4

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-3.16: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths13%
England’s schools 66% · Warrington 69% · a standard pass

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.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

69 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.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
1.4%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
72.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 13%Boys 87%
Its letter

No letter for Woolston Brook School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), April 2025. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), March 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Woolston Brook School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in WA1 4, the school’s postcode sector

Warrington property prices →
£270,000
median sale, 251 sales in 36 months · Warrington £242,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025WA1 4Warrington
WA1 4Warrington

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£350K
Semi-detached
£250K
Terraced
£215K
WA1 4Warrington

Homes in WA1 4 sell for a little over Warrington’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

22 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+BB+ABABC+AB−A+CBAC−CCB−BBB+Woolston Brook School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Warrington, WA1 4JL

Woolston Brook School: common questions

What is Woolston Brook School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (April 2025).

How much do houses cost near Woolston Brook School?

Homes in its postcode sector, WA1 4, sold for a median £270,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (251 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; Warrington’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.