Parrenthorn High School
Simister, M25 2BW · Bury local authority
Simister’s School Grade C+ better than 39% of towns in England
What stands out about Parrenthorn High School
- Its own letter, B−: GCSE results better than 47% of England’s secondary schools
- Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
- 88% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (202 of 230)
- Homes in its postcode sector (M25 2) sold for a median £279,975; Simister’s is £287,121
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 203 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Parrenthorn High beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 45.4
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 45% of schools · Bury avg 43.2
Grade 5+ in English and maths 44%
A strong pass · higher than 47% of schools · Bury avg 39%
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 59 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) 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 Parrenthorn High School?
88% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (69), 2020 (45), 2022 (1), 2023 (8), 2024 (23), 2025 (4), 2026 (28). 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. Vision Multi Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Bury council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
88% got their first choice
Simister and Bury, side by side
2025/26All 12 graded secondaries in Bury. 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. Simister’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury Church of England High School | A− | 23% | 51.5 |
| Woodhey High School | B+ | 16% | 49.8 |
| The Elton High School | B | 22% | 47.4 |
| St Monica's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy | B− | 24% | 46.7 |
| Philips High School | C+ | 38% | 46.2 |
| Parrenthorn High School | B− | 30% | 45.4 |
| Unsworth Academy | C | 31% | 43.2 |
| Manchester Mesivta School | C | 3% | 41.2 |
| St Gabriel's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy | D | 26% | 39.2 |
| Tottington High School | D | 30% | 38.9 |
| Hazel Wood High School | D− | 57% | 35.6 |
| The Heys School | D− | 45% | 33.1 |
Parrenthorn High 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.
Graded inspection: Good, March 2023.
Living near Parrenthorn High School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in M25 2, the school’s postcode sector
Simister property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in M25 2 sell for about the same as Simister’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
23 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Simister, M25 2BW
Parrenthorn High School: common questions
Is Parrenthorn High School a good school?
By its published results, about average: its GCSE results are better than 47% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B−), with an Attainment 8 of 45.4 and 44% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, March 2023.
How hard is it to get into Parrenthorn High School?
For September 2026, 230 families put Parrenthorn High School first and 202 of them were offered a place; 210 places were offered in all.
What is Parrenthorn High School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).
How much do houses cost near Parrenthorn High School?
Homes in its postcode sector, M25 2, sold for a median £279,975 over the 36 months to August 2026 (108 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; Simister’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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