Gilded Hollins Community School

Gilded Hollins Community School continues to uphold its status as a good institution, providing a supportive and safe environment for its pupils. The school community is characterized by respect, where students feel happy and confident to voice their opinions. Leaders maintain high expectations for both academic achievement and behavior, which is reflected in the pupils' positive engagement and participation in a wide range of extracurricular activities. The curriculum is broad and ambitious, supporting learning from the early years through to Year 6 effectively.

Strengths

• Pupils feel confident, happy, and safe at school.
• The school has a strong culture of respect among staff and pupils.
• Leaders have designed a broad and ambitious curriculum.
• Teachers demonstrate strong subject knowledge and effective assessment practices.
• Pupils are voracious readers with a well-established culture of reading.
• High participation in extracurricular clubs and activities is noted.
• Pupils support one another through initiatives like the 'kindness corner'.
• Safeguarding arrangements are robust and effective.

Areas for Improvement

• In a small number of subjects, curriculum delivery is not consistently checked by leaders.
• Teachers do not always adapt learning sufficiently for some pupils with SEND.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Gilded Hollins Community School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.5% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.5% of pupils at Gilded Hollins Community School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Gilded Hollins Community School had 22.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 14.8% of pupils at Gilded Hollins Community School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Gilded Hollins Community School received £6,401 and spent £6,458 for each of its 209 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £228,000 (£1,091 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Gilded Hollins Community School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Gilded Hollins Community School is Good, from an inspection in September 2023.

When was Gilded Hollins Community School last inspected by Ofsted?

Gilded Hollins Community School was last inspected in September 2023.

How many pupils does Gilded Hollins Community School have?

Gilded Hollins Community School has 209 pupils on roll.

What age range does Gilded Hollins Community School cover?

Gilded Hollins Community School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Gilded Hollins Community School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 97% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Gilded Hollins Community School?

Gilded Hollins Community School is at St Helen's Road, Leigh, Lancashire, WN7 3PQ.