Prenton High School for Girls
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Birkenhead, Wirral
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
3.442 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Prenton High School for Girls is a secondary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 30 November 2022. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Prenton High School for Girls 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 | 3.442 mi |
| 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
- For Year 7 entry in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 3.442 miles from the school, the 3rd shortest of 10 Wirral secondary schools with a published last distance.
- Year 7 last distances have swung sharply between some years; the 2026 figure was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2024.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026, there were 137 first-choice applications for 147 offers; 132 offers went to first-choice families and 5 first-choice families (4%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 33% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Wirral.
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
- Hesketh Avenue, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, CH42 6RR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 770 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 47.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 30 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be part of this caring community.”
- “Pupils understand these values and try to live up to them by working hard and looking after each other.”
- “Pupils say they enjoy coming to school because teachers are kind and know them well as individuals.”
To improve
- “In a very small number of subjects not enough thought has been given to the retention of learning.”
- “This means that a few pupils find it difficult to recall some of the topics they have learned previously in these subjects.”
- “Therefore, they cannot make sufficient connections between their current learning and what they have learned in the past.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 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) | 33% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 38.9 | 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: 137 first-preference applications, 147 offers in total, 132 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.
- St John Plessington Catholic College 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Bebington 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Wirral Grammar School for Girls 1.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Wirral Grammar School for Boys 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Birkenhead Park School 1.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Anselm's College 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ridgeway High School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodchurch High School 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published