Golborne High School
Secondary · Foundation school · Ages 11–16 · Warrington, Wigan
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.841 miles
Published by Wigan Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2010–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Golborne High School is a secondary school in Warrington, Wigan for ages 11–16 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 11 January 2023. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2010 to 2026 entry.
Golborne 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 | 1.841 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 9 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Year 7 2026: the last child offered a place lived 1.841 miles away, the 6th longest of 12 Wigan secondary schools with a published last distance.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026, there were 279 first-choice applications for 236 offers; 234 offers went to first-choice families, and 45 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 46% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Wigan.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wigan schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Lowton Road, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3EL
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 1,144 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 11 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Golborne High School aspire to achieve highly because leaders and staff expect the very best of them.”
- “Pupils live out the ‘Golborne Way’ through their actions each day.”
- “They listen attentively to their teachers, follow instructions diligently and treat one another with respect.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 March 2023 (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) | 46% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 50.1 | 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: 279 first-preference applications, 236 offers in total, 234 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 Wigan.
- Lowton Church of England High School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Byrchall High School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Cansfield High School 2.5 mi Good Last distance published
- The Westleigh School 3.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Hawkley Hall High School 3.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Hindley 3.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bedford High School 4.1 mi Good Last distance published