Ormskirk School

Type Secondary / Academy sponsor led
Age Range 11-18
Religion Unknown
Address Wigan Road
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 2AT
Phone 01695583040
Reference Number 148254

General Makeup

Number of pupils 1218
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 55.25%
Girls: 44.75%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 20.1%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 3.4%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 21.3

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 130 93 223
8 126 88 214
9 130 89 219
10 104 112 216
11 121 114 235
12 39 34 73
13 23 15 38

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 91.7%
White, Other 2.5%
White & Asian 0.9%
Asian, Other 0.9%
Indian 0.7%
Unclassified 0.7%
Mixed, Other 0.7%
White & Black (African) 0.3%
White & Black (Caribbean) 0.2%
Chinese 0.2%

Overall Ofsted Rating As of September 2024, Ofsted no longer give a one word rating for schools. See our blog post for more details.
Last Inspection Date 2025-02-07
Date Description Report
2025-01-07 School inspection School inspection

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
45.9 Unlock Unlock

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 51.5% Unlock Unlock
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 59.7% Unlock Unlock

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
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Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

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GCSE Results

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Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

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Points

Points Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Average Points 29.75 Unlock Unlock
Average Points (best 3) 30.6 Unlock Unlock

Grades

School Local Nationwide
Average Grade C C+ C+
Average Grade (best 3) C C+ C+
Percentage Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Students getting AAB or better 10.7% Unlock Unlock

2024 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
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Second Preference 174 38
Third Preference 169 12
From another Local Authority 26 18

Previous Years

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Destinations after GCSE's

Data relates to students who sat their GCSE's in 2022 and was last updated in May 2024.

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Name Distance
Ormskirk Church of England Primary School
Greetby Hill, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 2DP
0.48 miles
Moorgate Nursery School
Moorgate, Ormskirk, L39 4RY
0.86 miles
Westhead Lathom St James' Church of England Primary School
16 School Lane, Westhead, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40 6HL
0.97 miles
Ormskirk St Anne's Catholic Primary School
Aughton Street, Townend, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 3LQ
1.05 miles
Ormskirk West End School
Grimshaw Lane, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 1PA
1.2 miles
Ormskirk Asmall Primary School
Tennyson Drive, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 3PJ
1.33 miles
Aughton Christ Church Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Long Lane, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 5AS
1.61 miles
St John's Catholic Primary School, Burscough
Chapel Lane, Lathom, Burscough, Lancashire, L40 7RA
1.94 miles
Aughton Town Green Primary School
Town Green Lane, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 6SF
1.99 miles
Ormskirk Lathom Park Church of England Primary School
Hall Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40 5UG
2.02 miles
Aughton St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Delph Park Avenue, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 5DG
2.09 miles
Burscough Lordsgate Township Church of England Primary School
Lordsgate Drive, Burscough, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40 7RS
2.26 miles
Burscough Bridge Methodist School
Orrell Lane, Burscough, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40 0SG
2.69 miles
Bickerstaffe CofE Primary School and Nursery
Hall Lane, Bickerstaffe, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 0EH
2.71 miles
Brookfield Park Primary School
School Lane, Chapel House, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 8EH
2.72 miles
St Richard's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale
Sandy Lane, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 8LQ
2.74 miles
Burscough Village Primary School
Colburne Close, Burscough, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40 4LB
2.75 miles
Kingsbury Primary Special School
School Lane, Chapel House, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 8EH
2.77 miles
Burscough Bridge St John's Church of England Primary School
Burscough Bridge St John's Church of England Primary School, School Lane, Burscough, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40 4AE
2.78 miles
Trinity Church of England/Methodist School
Kiln Lane, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 8PW
3.09 miles
Name Distance
Turning Point Academy
Hants Lane,, Ormskirk, West Lancashire,, L39 1PX
0.81 miles
St Bede's Catholic High School
St Anne's Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4TA
1.19 miles
Pontville School
Black Moss Lane, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4TW
1.23 miles
Burscough Priory Academy
Trevor Road, Burscough, Ormskirk, L40 7RZ
2.54 miles
West Lancashire Community High School
School Lane, Chapel House, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 8EH
2.66 miles
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College
Glenburn Road, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 6JW
3.08 miles
Lathom High School : A Technology College
Glenburn Road, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 6JN
3.08 miles
Maharishi Free School
Cobbs Brow Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L40 6JJ
3.45 miles
Scarisbrick Hall School
3.55 miles
Deyes High School
Deyes Lane, Maghull, Liverpool, Merseyside, L31 6DE
4.72 miles
Peregrinate Ltd.
41 Liverpool Road North, Liverpool, L31 2HE
4.85 miles
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