Secondary
Ashley High School
Cawfield Avenue, Widnes, WA8 7HG
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 137 of 112 places
- Local authority
- Halton
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Ofsted
Last inspected February 2025
Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
9%
10.7
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 10.7 |
| EBacc average point score | 1.13 |
| Entered the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 23% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 9% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 13% |
| 22/23 | 21% |
| 23/24 | 19% |
| 24/25 | 9% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -2.57 |
| 22/23 | -2.06 |
| 23/24 | -2.66 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 9.4 |
| 22/23 | 12.5 |
| 23/24 | 10.6 |
| 24/25 | 10.7 |
Cawfield Avenue, Widnes, WA8 7HG
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Halton admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- D Wilson
- Address
- Cawfield Avenue, Widnes, WA8 7HG
- Telephone
- 01514244892