De La Salle School
Secondary · St. Helens · WA10 4QH
Data updated
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 6 June 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,180 pupils · 98% of 1,200 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 24.9% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 3.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 16.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 5.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
- URN
- 150833
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 234 families named it first for 228 Year 7 places, 1.03 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2015 entry went to 1.82 miles; distance decided places in 1 of the 10 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2013 to 2025. Ofsted last graded it Requires improvement on 6 June 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 8.7% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.03 first-choice applications per place228 places offered · 234 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2025 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2025 entry.
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2015 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1.82 miles
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: St Helens school admissions · the wider St. Helens authority
GCSE results (2024/2025)
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Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Special educational needs
Needs this school records that it caters for, in the order it lists them.
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Provision type: Resourced provision.
- Resourced provision
- 18 of 22 places taken places may be available
Unit places come from the school census and describe the position when it was taken, not today. Confirm with the local authority before relying on them.
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 91% (St. Helens 89%, England 59%) · Any other White background 2% (St. Helens 3%, England 7%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (St. Helens 1%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (St. Helens 1%, England 3%) · Any other Mixed background 1% (St. Helens 1%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 1% (St. Helens 1%, England 3%) · Black African 1% (St. Helens 2%, England 5%) · other groups together 2%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
17.64 suspensions per 100 pupils and 1 permanent exclusion · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · St. Helens: 31.76 suspensions and 0.39 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, secondary academies: 0.45% vacant, 0.33% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
53.7% of teachers took sickness absence, 7.8 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £54,158; 13.4% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 8/10less deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 41% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 12% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 41.1% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 10.3% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 52.7% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 86.3% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 8% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 5.7% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 26.5% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 0.5% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 23.8% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 8.6% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01006822 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £220,000441 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £157,500–£287,500the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Year 7 cutoff distance (2.93 km, 2015 entry): 1,527 sales, median £173,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 3an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 7an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 14an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 4an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted
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