Willow Bank School
near Newton-le-Willows, WA12 8DE · St. Helens local authority
Newton-le-Willows’s School Grade C better than 29% of towns in England
What stands out about Willow Bank School
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Over capacity: 70 pupils for 65 places
- 70% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, May 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Outside any built-up area: listed with Newton-le-Willows, the nearest town
- Homes in its postcode sector (WA12 8) sold for a median £220,000; Newton-le-Willows’s is £203,500
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 7 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Willow Bank beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 9.4
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · St. Helens avg 43.9
Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%
A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · St. Helens avg 40%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-2.01: 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).
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 202571 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
No letter for Willow Bank 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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting May 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, April 2022.
Living near Willow Bank School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in WA12 8, the school’s postcode sector
Newton-le-Willows property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in WA12 8 sell for a little over Newton-le-Willows’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
15 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗near Newton-le-Willows, WA12 8DE
Willow Bank School: common questions
What is Willow Bank School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (May 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Willow Bank School?
Homes in its postcode sector, WA12 8, sold for a median £220,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (301 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; Newton-le-Willows’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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