UK Schools
Birchwood Community High School
Birchwood Community High School is a mixed secondary academy in Warrington, Warrington Borough Council, teaching 875 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted graded quality of education as Good at its most recent inspection in December 2024. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 47.9 (England 46.1). The 2025–2026 school year runs from 3 September 2025 to 20 July 2026.
Ofsted inspection
The latest published Ofsted judgement for Birchwood Community High School.
From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.
Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate
Term dates & holidays 2025–2026
Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for Birchwood Community High School.
- 3 Start of Autumn Term
- 20–24 Autumn Half Term Holiday
- 22–31 Christmas Holiday
- 25 Christmas Day (Bank Holiday)
- 26 Boxing Day (Bank Holiday)
- 1–2 Christmas Holiday
- 1 New Year’s Day (Bank Holiday)
- 5 Start of Spring Term
- 16–20 Spring Half Term Holiday
- 30–31 Easter Holiday
- 1–10 Easter Holiday
- 3 Good Friday (Bank Holiday)
- 6 Easter Monday (Bank Holiday)
- 13 Start of Summer Term
- 4 Early May Bank Holiday
- 25–29 Summer Half Term Holiday
- 25 Spring Bank Holiday
- 2–3 Inset Days for Teaching Staff – School closed for students
- 3 Independent Learning Day (Students work from home)
- 20 End of Summer Term
- 21–31 Summer Holiday
- 1–31 Summer Holiday
- 31 Summer Bank Holiday
Key dates (2025–2026)
- Start of Autumn Term Sep 3, 2025 Term
- Autumn Half Term Holiday Oct 20-24, 2025 Holiday
- Christmas Holiday Dec 22, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 Holiday
- Start of Spring Term Jan 5, 2026 Term
- Spring Half Term Holiday Feb 16-20, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Holiday Mar 30 - Apr 10, 2026 Holiday
- Start of Summer Term Apr 13, 2026 Term
- Summer Half Term Holiday May 25-29, 2026 Holiday
- End of Summer Term Jul 20, 2026 Term
- Summer Holiday Jul 21 - Aug 31, 2026 Holiday
- Independent Learning Day (Students work from home) Jul 3, 2026 Event
- Inset Days for Teaching Staff – School closed for students Jul 2-3, 2026 Inset Day
- New Year’s Day (Bank Holiday) Jan 1, 2026 Holiday
- Good Friday (Bank Holiday) Apr 3, 2026 Holiday
- Easter Monday (Bank 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 (Bank Holiday) Dec 25, 2025 Holiday
- Boxing Day (Bank Holiday) Dec 26, 2025 Holiday
Exam results & performance
The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare Birchwood Community High School with Warrington Borough Council and England.
Key stage 4 (GCSE) 47.9 Attainment 8 score
Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.
This school Warrington Borough Council England
Attendance 29.1% Persistently absent pupils
Absence across the whole school year.
This school Warrington Borough Council England
What pupils do after GCSEs 91% In education, apprenticeship or work
Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.
This school Warrington Borough 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 Birchwood Community 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 Birchwood Community 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.