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74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2
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Parklands High School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,102of 1,116 places
- Free school meals
- 27.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 209
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 11 May 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Parklands High School (URN 119764, until 1 September 2012).
What the data says
Parklands High School has no sixth form. Of the 212 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 7% moved to a sixth form college, 71% to a further education college and 6% started an apprenticeship.
Religious Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 98% of the year group took it, against 31% of pupils across England.
10% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 44.4 against 46.1 across England and 45.1 in Lancashire, with 35% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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 Lancashire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Parklands High School | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 212 | 13,296 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 88% | 90% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 79% | 81% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 1% | 12% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 7% | 20% | 13% |
| — further education college | 71% | 48% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 6% | 5% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 4% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 10% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Parklands High School | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 44.4 | 45.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 35% | 44% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 58% | 64% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 8% | 34% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.49 | 3.95 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 30% | 26% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 34.1 | 32.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 48.7 | 49.3 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 3% | 12% | 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.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 209 | 100% | 89% | 17% | 20% | 70% |
| Mathematics | 209 | 100% | 88% | 15% | 22% | 66% |
| English Literature | 206 | 99% | 86% | 19% | 21% | 67% |
| Religious Studies | 204 | 98% | 31% | 17% | 32% | 52% |
| Combined Science | 164 | 78% | 65% | 6% | 9% | 48% |
| History | 99 | 47% | 41% | 18% | 26% | 45% |
| Physical Education | 57 | 27% | 11% | 26% | 24% | 95% |
| Geography | 54 | 26% | 41% | 15% | 25% | 54% |
| Biology | 42 | 20% | 23% | 26% | 45% | 79% |
| Physics | 41 | 20% | 23% | 22% | 46% | 73% |
| Chemistry | 41 | 20% | 23% | 27% | 47% | 68% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 38 | 18% | 8% | 8% | 21% | 55% |
| Fine Art | 35 | 17% | 9% | 17% | 28% | 69% |
| Computer Science | 33 | 16% | 13% | 15% | 30% | 48% |
| French | 28 | 13% | 18% | 21% | 29% | 61% |
| Business Studies | 17 | 8% | 18% | 29% | 20% | 76% |
| Dance | 16 | 8% | 1% | 13% | 27% | 63% |
| Design and Technology | 15 | 7% | 11% | 7% | 23% | 53% |
| Drama | 12 | 6% | 7% | 50% | 27% | 83% |
| Music | 11 | 5% | 5% | 9% | 33% | 45% |
| Photography | 10 | 5% | 6% | 20% | 19% | 100% |
| Arabic | 6 | 3% | 1% | 83% | 47% | 83% |
| Spanish | 1 | 0% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Chinese | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 48 | — | — |
| Engineering Studies | 47 | — | — |
| Music Technology (Electronic) | 14 | — | — |
| Multimedia | 14 | — | — |
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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.