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Pace

Alternative provisionAges 5–11Pupil referral unit

St Helens, WA9 2LH · St. Helens local authority

St Helens’s School Grade C+ better than 38% of towns in England

How full
16 pupils
January 2026 census
Free school meals
56%
56 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Pace

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 56% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (WA9 2) sold for a median £118,500; St Helens’s is £172,500

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

16 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
81.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
18.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
75%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 25%Boys 75%
Its letter

No letter for Pace

Alternative provision isn’t given a letter: pupils come for part of their schooling, so results don’t 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), June 2025. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), March 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Pace

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

Home prices in WA9 2, the school’s postcode sector

St Helens property prices →
£118,500
median sale, 143 sales in 36 months · St Helens £172,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£0K£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025WA9 2St Helens
WA9 2St Helens

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£194K
Semi-detached
£150K
Terraced
£115K
Flat
£79K
WA9 2St Helens

Homes in WA9 2 sell for well under St Helens’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

16 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−C−B−C+C−DC+C−DCC−B+BC+CD−Pace
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

St Helens, WA9 2LH

Pace: common questions

What is Pace’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (June 2025).

How much do houses cost near Pace?

Homes in its postcode sector, WA9 2, sold for a median £118,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (143 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; St Helens’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.