Lymm High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Lymm, Warrington
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
3.914 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lymm High School is a secondary school in Lymm, Warrington for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 March 2024. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Lymm 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 | 3.914 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 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place lived 3.914 miles away, the 2nd longest of 8 Warrington secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The Year 7 2026 last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2023, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Year 7 2026 had 363 first-choice applications for 309 offers; 300 offers went to first-choice families and 63 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 69% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Warrington.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warrington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Oughtrington Lane, Lymm, WA13 0RB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 1,937 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils, including students in the sixth form, do well academically in this school.”
- “They live up to the high expectations that the school sets for their achievement.”
- “Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), benefit from an ambitious and well-structured curriculum.”
To improve
- “Some pupils in key stage 3, and those who are disadvantaged, are not currently making similar strides in learning.”
- “In a small number of subjects, especially at key stage 3, teachers do not remedy pupils’ misconceptions quickly enough.”
- “At times, this means that some teachers move on to new content when pupils have not secured earlier learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 June 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) | 69% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 59.7 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | 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: 363 first-preference applications, 309 offers in total, 300 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 Warrington.
- King's Leadership Academy Warrington 3.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Birchwood Community High School 3.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cardinal Newman Catholic High School 4.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School 4.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Padgate Academy 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Bridgewater High School 4.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Culcheth High School 5.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Beamont Collegiate Academy 5.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published