Queen's Park High School

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Cheshire West and Chester·CH4 7AE
Composite score
55.2
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#1,866
National rank
#228
In North West
#12
In Cheshire West and Chester
Top 59%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
44.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
42%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
61%
% EBacc grade 5+
8%
EBacc average points score
3.83

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
124 first choices, 128 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
250
any preference, for 128 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.05
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8320220.8020230.9420240.9120250.972026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Queen's Park High School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
785
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
17.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.7%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
29.0%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,574
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
87%
100 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
82%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Queen's Park High School at a glance

Located in Cheshire West and Chester, Queen's Park High School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 785 pupils aged 11 to 18. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 44.2 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 3.3 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

42% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 61% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Queen's Park High School their first choice was offered one of its 128 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 87% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.7%. There are about 16.7 pupils per teacher. Queen's Park High School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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