Woodchurch High School
Ofsted: Good
Score
D52
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Wirral, CH49 7NG
- Distance
- 0.6km away
Ridgeway High School
Noctorum Avenue, Noctorum, Prenton, CH43 9EB
Local ranking15th of 20 secondary schools in Wirral
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
885
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 30 January 2024. Figures last updated .
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 37.7 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 21.0% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 50.9% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 167
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 84.0%
- Continued in education
- 69.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 9.0%
- Employment
- 6.0%
- Not sustained
- 12.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 903
- Boys
- 484 (56%)
- Girls
- 374 (44%)
- Capacity
- 885 (97% full)
- SEND
- 28.1%
- FSM Eligible
- 58.7%
- EAL
- 6.3%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 7.1%
- SEN Support
- 21.0%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 12.1:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 74.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £10,050/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 12.8% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 43.3% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 89.8%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 1.7%
- White Other: 1.6%
- Other: 1.4%
- Black African: 1.0%
- Mixed Other: 0.9%
- Asian Other: 0.9%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.6%
89.8%
White British
1.7%
Asian Bangladeshi
1.6%
White Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Noctorum Avenue
Prenton, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 105097
- UKPRN
- 10017497
- Establishment No.
- 4018
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