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Birchwood Community High School

URN
139840
Phase
Secondary
Status
Open

School overview

School name
Birchwood Community High School
URN
139840
Phase
Secondary
Gender
Mixed
Age range
11-16
Status
Open

School Compass Score

Good

66 / 100

Good

Based on official data for academic year 2024/25.

Academic Outcomes

63

Inspection

—

Admissions Value

62

Destinations

52

Stability & Context

100

School Compass rankings

Top 50% of secondary schools in England

Top 50% nationally

#7 of 12 schools in Warrington

Based on School Compass rankings calculated from performance, inspection, admissions and destination data.

School Compass recommendation

Consider

This school has a mixed profile and may warrant further investigation.

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Based on School Compass analysis of official performance, inspection, admissions and destination data.

Admissions strategy

  • Application category: Target school
  • Admissions pressure: High competition
  • Admissions risk: High risk

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Crime & Safety

  • Safety score: Safe
  • National comparison: Lower crime than average
  • Crime trend: Stable trend
  • Confidence: High confidence

Higher share of violent and serious offences than typical

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Available in the full Parent Report:

  • Crime categories in the surrounding area
  • Local authority and nearby-school comparisons
  • Safety trends over the past year
  • Area context and confidence notes

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Area crime data reflects the surrounding neighbourhood — it is not a measure of school safeguarding or on-site safety.

  • Area crime data reflects the surrounding neighbourhood — it is not a measure of school safeguarding or on-site safety.
  • This section reflects police-recorded crime in the surrounding area, not incidents on school premises.
  • Figures are anonymised by the police and aggregated within approximately one mile of the school site.

Question 1: Is it a good school?

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Your decision briefing for Birchwood Community High School

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Question 2

Can we realistically get in?

  • Data confidence: Moderate confidence
  • Admissions pressure: Competitive
  • Personalised application strategy available
  • 8 alternative schools identified

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  • Last admitted distance
  • Catchment boundaries
  • Postcode-specific likelihood
  • Offer probability
  • Waiting list position
  • Priority rules
  • Grammar / selective cut-offs

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Can we realistically get in?

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Ofsted inspections

Previous inspection framework
Latest publication date
19 January 2025
Inspection date
10 December 2024
Inspection type
S5 Inspection
Category of concern
None recorded
SafeguardingNot available

Inspection outcomes

  • Quality of education

    Good

    Graded 19 January 2025

  • Behaviour and attitudes

    Good

    Graded 19 January 2025

  • Personal development

Admissions

High pressure

Official Department for Education applications and offers data for Secondary Transfer in academic year 2025/26.

Academic year

Academic year

2025/26

Published admission number (PAN)

Published admission number (PAN)

134

Places offered by the school

Applications received

Applications received

314

Times listed as any preference

Offers made

Offers made

133

Preferred offers from this school

Oversubscription ratio

Oversubscription ratio

2.34×

Applications per place

Offer rate

Where to apply

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Local authority
Warrington
Admissions portal
GOV.UK — apply for a secondary school place (Warrington)
Application deadline
31 October 2026 (on-time deadline for secondary entry, September 2027)
School website
http://www.birchwoodhigh.org/

If the portal link opens GOV.UK, select Warrington to reach your council's application system.

Performance & outcomes

Official Department for Education attainment and outcomes data. Suppressed or unpublished figures are shown as “Not published”.

Key stage 4 (secondary)

Key stage 4 (secondary) data for academic year 2024/25

Official Department for Education key stage 4 performance for academic year 2024/25. Progress 8 is not published for this academic year.

Attainment 8

Attainment 8

47.9

Progress 8

Progress 8

Not published

English and maths grade 5 or above

English & maths 5+

42.9%

English and maths grade 4 or above

English & maths 4+

70.1%

EBacc entry

EBacc entry

50.6%

EBacc achievement

Location

WA3 7PT - Brock Road, Birchwood, Warrington, Cheshire

Contact details

Address
Brock Road, Birchwood, Warrington, Cheshire
Postcode
WA3 7PT
Phone
1925853500
Website
http://www.birchwoodhigh.org/
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Administrative details

Local authority name
Warrington
Local authority code
877

School insights

Local authority context

This school is one of 190 schools in Warrington.

Authority statistics

Total schools

190

Open schools

94

Closed schools

96

Primary schools

136

Data quality

Last updated
14 June 2026
Last imported
14 June 2026

Dates reflect the latest GIAS import and any recorded closure date for this school.

The School Compass Score combines academic outcomes, inspection findings, admissions value, destinations, and school stability to help parents compare schools consistently.

  • Not all crime is reported to the police. Small areas can vary significantly year to year.
  • Source: data.police.uk under the Open Government Licence; population from ONS.
  • Good

    Graded 19 January 2025

  • Leadership and management

    Good

    Graded 19 January 2025

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    Inspection history

    Showing the last 1 inspection on record, including monitoring visits.

    PublishedInspectedTypeSummaryReport
    19 January 202510 December 2024S5 InspectionInspectionView report for inspection published 19 January 2025
    • Inspection

      Published
      19 January 2025
      Inspected
      10 December 2024
      Type
      S5 Inspection
      Report
      View report

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Ofsted management information via GOV.UK.

    Offer rate

    42.4%

    Offers as a share of applications

    First preference offers: 116

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education school applications and offers statistics.

    EBacc achievement

    19.5%

    Key stage 4 destinations

    Key stage 4 destinations data for leaver academic year 2022/23

    Sustained destination measures for pupils who completed key stage 4 in 2022/23 (destinations in 2023/24).

    Education destination

    Education %

    82.0%

    Employment destination

    Employment %

    5.0%

    Apprenticeship destination

    Apprenticeships %

    4.0%

    Not in education, employment or training

    NEET %

    7.0%

    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education performance and outcomes statistics (England).

    Secondary schools

    27

    Special schools

    0

    Phase distribution

    • Primary136 (72.0%)
    • Secondary27 (14.3%)
    • Special0 (0.0%)
    • Other26 (13.8%)

    Nearby schools

    School nameDistancePhaseStatus
    Birchwood Community High School0 mSecondaryClosed
    Chatfield Community Primary School305 mPrimaryClosed
    Birchwood School410 mNot applicableOpen
    St Oliver Plunkett Catholic Primary School542 mPrimaryClosed
    Locking Stumps Community Primary School753 mPrimaryOpen
    Locking Stumps Community Primary School753 mPrimaryClosed
    Birchwood CofE Primary School955 mPrimaryOpen
    Longbarn Community Primary School1.4 kmPrimaryClosed
    Kassia Academy and Support Services1.4 kmNot applicableOpen
    New Horizons School1.4 kmNot applicableClosed
    • Birchwood Community High School
      Distance
      0 m
      Phase
      Secondary
      Status
      Closed
    • Chatfield Community Primary School
      Distance
      305 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Closed
    • Birchwood School
      Distance
      410 m
      Phase
      Not applicable
      Status
      Open
    • St Oliver Plunkett Catholic Primary School
      Distance
      542 m
      Phase
      Primary
      Status
      Closed

    Similar schools

    Same phase (Secondary) and local authority (Warrington)

    School namePhasePostcodeStatus
    Beamont Collegiate AcademySecondaryWA2 8PXOpen
    Bewsey County High SchoolSecondaryWA5 0ADClosed
    Birchwood Community High SchoolSecondaryWA3 7PTClosed
    Bridgewater High SchoolSecondaryWA4 3AEOpen
    Bridgewater High SchoolSecondaryWA4 3AEClosed
    • Beamont Collegiate Academy
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      WA2 8PX
      Status
      Open
    • Bewsey County High School
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      WA5 0AD
      Status
      Closed
    • Birchwood Community High School
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      WA3 7PT
      Status
      Closed
    • Bridgewater High School
      Phase
      Secondary
      Postcode
      WA4 3AE
      Status
      Open
    • Bridgewater High School
    Locking Stumps Community Primary School
    Distance
    753 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Open
  • Locking Stumps Community Primary School
    Distance
    753 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Closed
  • Birchwood CofE Primary School
    Distance
    955 m
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Open
  • Longbarn Community Primary School
    Distance
    1.4 km
    Phase
    Primary
    Status
    Closed
  • Kassia Academy and Support Services
    Distance
    1.4 km
    Phase
    Not applicable
    Status
    Open
  • New Horizons School
    Distance
    1.4 km
    Phase
    Not applicable
    Status
    Closed
  • Phase
    Secondary
    Postcode
    WA4 3AE
    Status
    Closed