Wade Deacon High School

📍 Birchfield Road, Halton, Cheshire, WA8 7TD

About this school

Wade Deacon High School is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in Halton, Cheshire. The school has 1,618 pupils enrolled. It was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 29 November 2022. The Principal is Brendan Hesketh. The school is administered by Halton local authority. It belongs to WADE DEACON TRUST. It opened in 1 March 2013.

School details

Principal

Brendan Hesketh

Trust

WADE DEACON TRUST

Local authority

Halton

Gender

Mixed

URN

139368

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Wade Deacon High School are handled by the school or the local authority (Halton). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

Source: Department for Education school performance data. Check this school on GOV.UK →

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