Weatherhead High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Wallasey, Wirral
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.337 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Weatherhead High School is a secondary school in Wallasey, Wirral for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 29 November 2022. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Weatherhead 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 | 2.337 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 in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.337 miles away, the shortest of 10 Wirral secondary schools with a published last distance.
- Among the 10 Wirral secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance, the middle figure was 5.93 miles and 7 other schools offered every applicant a place.
- Year 7 2026 had 271 first-choice applications for 259 offers; 254 offers went to first-choice families, and 17 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 2024/25 GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above: 28% (England 45%), the 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
- Breck Rd, Wallasey, CH44 3HS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 1,500 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 29 November 2022
Strengths
- “Weatherhead High School is a happy and friendly learning community.”
- “Pupils, students in the sixth form and staff are proud to belong to this school.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are strong.”
To improve
- “However, in a minority of subjects, teachers’ use of assessment strategies is less effective.”
- “Some teachers move on to new learning before pupils’ and students’ knowledge is secure.”
- “This hinders how well some pupils and students learn.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 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) | 28% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 41.9 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C | B- |
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: 271 first-preference applications, 259 offers in total, 254 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.
- The Mosslands School 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- The Oldershaw School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Anselm's College 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Birkenhead Park School 1.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Ridgeway High School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Upton Hall School FCJ 2.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Woodchurch High School 2.8 mi Not judged Last distance published