Community special school

West Lancashire Community High School

Mixed · ages 11–19 · with sixth formLancashire, North West · Skelmersdale WN8 8EHSchool website
Pupils on roll
176of 180 places
Free school meals
40.4%
Year 11 cohort 2025
21
Ofsted
School remains Good, 13 March 2024Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Black Moss School (URN 119886).

What the data says

Of the 18 pupils who finished Year 11 at West Lancashire Community High School in 2023, 0% stayed on in West Lancashire Community High School’s own sixth form (Lancashire average 12%), 6% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Lancashire and England.

This school
Lancashire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureThis schoolLancashireEngland
Pupils in the cohort1813,296607,348
Any sustained destination100%90%92%
Stayed in education100%81%86%
— school sixth form0%12%34%
— sixth form college0%20%13%
— further education college6%48%37%
— other education94%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%5%3%
Employment0%4%3%
No sustained destination0%7%6%
Destination unknown0%2%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

MeasureThis schoolLancashireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)0.245.146.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%44%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%64%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%34%41%
EBacc average point score0.003.954.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort48%26%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils0.232.734.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils0.249.350.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language5%12%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Art and Design314%7%24%

Where West Lancashire Community High School is

Other secondary schools in Lancashire are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Lancashire’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Lancashire

Academy@Worden

Academy converter · 660 pupils

74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2

Accrington Academy

Academy sponsor led · 953 pupils

79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.4

Albany Academy

Academy converter · 725 pupils

76% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.7

Alder Grange School

Community school · sixth form · 899 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.0

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.