Rainhill High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Prescot, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
3.309 miles
Published by St Helens Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rainhill High School is a secondary school in Prescot, St. Helens for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 22 February 2023. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
Rainhill 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 | 3.309 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Year 7 2026 last distance offered was 3.309 miles, the 2nd longest of 5 St. Helens secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.25 miles).
- Year 7 2026 had 269 first-choice applications for 292 offers; 258 offers went to first-choice families and 11 first-choice families (4%) were not offered a place.
- 267 of the 545 Year 7 2026 applications (49%) came from families living outside St. Helens, and 141 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 41% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 45.9 (England 46).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other St. Helens schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Warrington Road, Rainhill, Prescot, L35 6NY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 1,535 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 22 February 2023
Strengths
- “Since the previous inspection, leaders and staff have raised their expectations of what pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, can achieve academically.”
- “Leaders’ hopes and aspirations for pupils are reflected in ambitious subject curriculums.”
- “Current pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), achieve well in most subjects.”
To improve
- “That said, a very small proportion of pupils and their parents and carers are not confident in leaders’ systems to deal with bullying.”
- “Those Year 11 pupils who left the school in summer 2022 did not benefit fully from leaders’ improvements to the curriculum.”
- “As a result, some of these pupils did not achieve as well as they should have.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 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) | 41% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 45.9 | 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: 269 first-preference applications, 292 offers in total, 258 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 St. Helens.
- The Sutton Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- De La Salle School 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St. Cuthbert's Catholic Academy 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cowley International College 3.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy 3.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Haydock 4.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hope Academy 6.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Rainford High School 6.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published