Ridgeway High School
Secondary · Foundation school · Ages 11–16 · Prenton, Wirral
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Wirral Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ridgeway High School is a secondary school in Prenton, Wirral for ages 11–16 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 January 2024. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ridgeway High School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for a Year 7 place in 2026 was offered one, as at 6 of the 18 other Wirral secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 104 first-choice applications for 129 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 25 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 25% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Wirral.
- The school has 11.1 pupils per teacher, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Wirral is 15.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wirral schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Noctorum Avenue, Noctorum, Prenton, CH43 9EB
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 858 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 60.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 11.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 January 2024
Strengths
- “The school has a strong sense of community which helps pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to feel happy and safe.”
- “Pupils respect the differences between people, and they are proud to be part of a diverse school community.”
- “The school has high aspirations for all pupils.”
To improve
- “However, the knowledge and skills that these pupils are acquiring are not fully reflected in the most recent external examination results.”
- “This is because weaknesses in the design of the previous curriculum affected pupils’ achievement across a range subjects.”
- “In a few subjects, however, the school is still identifying exactly what pupils need to learn and in which order this needs to happen.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 25% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 39.2 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 104 first-preference applications, 129 offers in total, 104 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Wirral.
- Woodchurch High School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Upton Hall School FCJ 1.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Anselm's College 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Birkenhead Park School 1.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Prenton High School for Girls 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Weatherhead High School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Mosslands School 2.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published