Academy converter · Primary
Runcorn · WA7 5LU · Halton
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.4 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 111125
Woodside Primary School
Community school · Runcorn · WA7 5YP
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 5–11
Pupils
116
Local authority
Halton
Age range
Ages 5–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have 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 community school (primary), Ages 5–11, in Runcorn, Halton, 116 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: special school. Free school meals: 72.4%. SEN provision includes: SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 111125
Location
- Address
- Whitchurch Way, Halton Lodge Estate
- Postcode
- WA7 5YP
- Town
- Runcorn
- County
- Cheshire
- Local authority
- Halton
- District
- Halton
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby
- 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
- 116
- Boys / girls
- 58 / 58
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 116 / 210 (55%)
- Free school meals
- 72.4%
- FSM pupils
- 84
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
- Resourced provision
- Resourced provision
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Richard Collings
- Telephone
- 01928564031
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
2022-06-08
- 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 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 64%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 9%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 106.0