Birchwood Community High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
4.152 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Birchwood Community High School is a secondary school in Warrington for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 10 December 2024. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Birchwood Community 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 | 4.152 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 2024/25, 43% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest Warrington secondary schools.
- The 2026 Year 7 last distance offered was 4.152 miles, the longest of the 8 Warrington secondary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 1.85 miles.
- Year 7 entry in 2026 saw 168 first-choice applications for 180 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 12 offers went to those ranking it second or lower.
- 41.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.5% across 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
- Brock Road, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 7PT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 875 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 10 December 2024
Strengths
- “This school has a strong sense of community spirit.”
- “Pupils are warmly welcomed into the Birchwood family.”
- “Pupils are confident to display their individuality in a place where difference is celebrated.”
To improve
- “The published key stage 4 outcomes in 2023 and 2024 do not reflect the strengths in the school’s curriculum.”
- “Nor do they show how well pupils are currently achieving.”
- “These pupils did not benefit fully from the school’s curriculum offer.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 January 2025 (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) | 43% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47.9 | 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: 168 first-preference applications, 180 offers in total, 168 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 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Padgate Academy 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Cardinal Newman Catholic High School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Beamont Collegiate Academy 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Culcheth High School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Aldridge UTC Warrington 3.1 mi Not judged
- Lymm High School 3.9 mi Good Last distance published