Non-maintained special school

Wargrave House School

Mixed · ages 4–16 · no sixth formSt. Helens, North West · Newton-le-Willows WA12 8RSSchool website
Pupils on roll
74of 90 places
Free school meals
4.1%
Year 11 cohort 2025
13
Ofsted
Report card, 9 June 2026Read the Ofsted report
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What the data says

The Department for Education has not published where Wargrave House School’s Year 11 leavers went next (the cohort is too small to report), so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.

Wargrave House School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 1.4, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in St. Helens and England.

The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).

GCSE results 2025

MeasureWargrave House SchoolSt. HelensEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)1.441.846.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%36%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%57%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%34%41%
EBacc average point score0.083.594.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort31%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils30.234.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils47.050.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language5%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language215%89%20%
Mathematics215%88%22%

Other secondary schools in St. Helens

Hope Academy

Academy sponsor led · 1,235 pupils

80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.8

Rainford High School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,646 pupils

89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 50.6

Rainhill High School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,535 pupils

86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.9

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.