UK Schools
Penwortham Girls' High School
Penwortham Girls' High School is a girls' local-authority maintained secondary school in Preston, Lancashire County Council, teaching 799 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted rated it Outstanding at its last graded inspection in May 2024. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 52.9 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 2 September 2025 to 13 April 2026.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Penwortham Girls' High School.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Penwortham Girls' High School.
- 1 INSET Day 1
- 2 School Re-opens (Autumn Term Begins)
- 3 INSET Day 2
- 27–31 Autumn Half Term Holiday
- 3 INSET Day 3
- 4 School Re-opens After Half Term
- 19 School Closes for Christmas Holiday
- 22–31 Christmas Holiday
- 25 Christmas Day (Public Holiday)
- 26 Boxing Day (Public Holiday)
- 1–2 Christmas Holiday
- 1 New Year’s Day (Public Holiday)
- 5 INSET Day 4
- 6 School Re-opens (Spring Term Begins)
- 16–20 Spring Half Term Holiday
- 23 School Re-opens After Half Term
- 27 School Closes for Easter Holiday
- 30–31 Easter Holiday
- 1–10 Easter Holiday
- 3 Good Friday (Public Holiday)
- 6 Easter Monday (Public Holiday)
- 13 School Re-opens (Summer Term Begins)
- 4 May Day Bank Holiday (School Closed)
- 4 Early May Bank Holiday
- 25–29 Summer Half Term Holiday
- 25 Spring Bank Holiday
- 1 School Re-opens After Half Term
- 17 School Closes for Summer Holiday
- 20 INSET Day 5
- 20–31 Summer Holiday
- 1–31 Summer Holiday
- 31 Summer Bank Holiday
Key dates (2025–2026)
- INSET Day 1 Sep 1, 2025 Inset Day
- School Re-opens (Autumn Term Begins) Sep 2, 2025 Term
- INSET Day 2 Oct 3, 2025 Inset Day
- Autumn Half Term Holiday Oct 27-31, 2025 Holiday
- INSET Day 3 Nov 3, 2025 Inset Day
- School Re-opens After Half Term Nov 4, 2025 Holiday
- School Closes for Christmas Holiday Dec 19, 2025 Holiday
- Christmas Holiday Dec 22, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 Holiday
- INSET Day 4 Jan 5, 2026 Inset Day
- School Re-opens (Spring Term Begins) Jan 6, 2026 Term
- Spring Half Term Holiday Feb 16-20, 2026 Holiday
- School Re-opens After Half Term Feb 23, 2026 Holiday
- School Closes for Easter Holiday Mar 27, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday Mar 30 - Apr 10, 2026 Holiday
- School Re-opens (Summer Term Begins) Apr 13, 2026 Term
- May Day Bank Holiday (School Closed) May 4, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Half Term Holiday May 25-29, 2026 Holiday
- School Re-opens After Half Term Jun 1, 2026 Holiday
- School Closes for Summer Holiday Jul 17, 2026 Holiday
- INSET Day 5 Jul 20, 2026 Inset Day
- Summer Holiday Jul 20 - Aug 31, 2026 Holiday
- New Year’s Day (Public Holiday) Jan 1, 2026 Holiday
- Good Friday (Public Holiday) Apr 3, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Monday (Public Holiday) Apr 6, 2026 Holiday
- Early May Bank Holiday May 4, 2026 Holiday
- Spring Bank Holiday May 25, 2026 Holiday
- Summer Bank Holiday Aug 31, 2026 Holiday
- Christmas Day (Public Holiday) Dec 25, 2025 Holiday
- Boxing Day (Public Holiday) Dec 26, 2025 Holiday
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Penwortham Girls' High School with Lancashire County Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 52.9 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school Lancashire County Council England
Attendance 15.8% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Lancashire County Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 93% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school Lancashire County Council England
About this data source & caveats
Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.
We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.
Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for Penwortham Girls' High School. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.
Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Location & catchment area
Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to Penwortham Girls' High School than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.