Secondary
Great Sankey High School
Barrow Hall Lane, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 3AA
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 2051 of 2175 places
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- OMEGA MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2023
Good
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
49%
50.5
7th of 15 by our score, among the secondary schools in Warrington we can score - 16 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 50.5 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.52 |
| Entered the EBacc | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 74% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 49% |
| A level average points per entry | 35.35 |
| A level students | 100 |
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 | 55% |
| 22/23 | 50% |
| 23/24 | 46% |
| 24/25 | 49% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 35.1 |
| 22/23 | 31.1 |
| 23/24 | 33.3 |
| 24/25 | 35.4 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0.00 |
| 22/23 | -0.26 |
| 23/24 | -0.32 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 52.0 |
| 22/23 | 49.6 |
| 23/24 | 49.2 |
| 24/25 | 50.5 |
Barrow Hall Lane, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 3AA
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.
Warrington 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
- Gary Evans
- Address
- Barrow Hall Lane, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 3AA
- Telephone
- 01925724118