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Sir Tom Finney Community High School

Special schoolAges 11–19CommunitySixth form

Preston, PR2 6EE · Lancashire local authority

Preston’s School Grade C+ better than 40% of towns in England

How full
255 pupils
104% of its 245 places
Free school meals
49%
49 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Sir Tom Finney Community High School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 49% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (PR2 6) sold for a median £154,500; Preston’s is £140,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 28 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Sir Tom Finney Community High beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 0.6

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Lancashire avg 46.2

20304050607080England avg 47.3Sir Tom Finney Community High 0.6

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Lancashire avg 44%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Sir Tom Finney Community High 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2024/25
0.3
2025/26
0.6

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 17 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
0England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
1.5England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths4%
England’s schools 66% · Lancashire 64% · 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

237 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
14.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
47.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 36%Boys 64%
Its letter

No letter for Sir Tom Finney Community High 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.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, March 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Sir Tom Finney Community High School

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

Home prices in PR2 6, the school’s postcode sector

Preston property prices →
£154,500
median sale, 316 sales in 36 months · Preston £140,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025PR2 6Preston
PR2 6Preston

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£288K
Semi-detached
£162K
Terraced
£133K
Flat
£35K
PR2 6Preston

Homes in PR2 6 sell for a little over Preston’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

20 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B−C−C−DC−D−DDA−A−DB−ADB−D−D−B+Sir Tom Finney Community Hi…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Preston, PR2 6EE

Sir Tom Finney Community High School: common questions

What is Sir Tom Finney Community High School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).

How much do houses cost near Sir Tom Finney Community High School?

Homes in its postcode sector, PR2 6, sold for a median £154,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (316 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; Preston’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.