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Manchester · M31 4BU · Trafford
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
2.7 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 138732
Lymm High School
Academy converter · Lymm · WA13 0RB
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,937
Local authority
Warrington
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Lymm, Warrington, 1,937 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 12.4%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 138732
Location
- Address
- Oughtrington Lane
- Postcode
- WA13 0RB
- Town
- Lymm
- County
- Cheshire
- Local authority
- Warrington
- District
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Tatton
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,937
- Boys / girls
- 975 / 962
- School capacity
- 1,909
- Capacity fill
- 1,937 / 1,909 (101%)
- Free school meals
- 12.4%
- FSM pupils
- 187
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: LYMM HIGH SCHOOL
- Academy trust
- LYMM HIGH SCHOOL
Contact
- Headteacher
- Gwyn Williams
- Telephone
- 01925755458
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-03-05
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 60.1
- Progress 8
- 0.7
- English & maths grade 5+
- 72%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 89%
- EBacc entry
- 32%
- EBacc APS
- 5.3
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
7.3%
Persistent absence
20.0%
Unauthorised
2.6%
- Authorised absence
- 4.8%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 2.2%
- Enrolments in measure
- 1,569
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 6.4% · Persistent 16.9%
- 2021/22
- Overall 7.5% · Persistent 19.5%