Fleetwood High School

About Fleetwood High School

Fleetwood High School’s headline Progress 8 score of -0.57 sits well below the Lancashire local authority average of -0.11, a gap that places it firmly in the bottom half of secondary schools in the county. Among the 90 state secondaries in Lancashire, it ranks 68th, and within the Wyre district it comes 6th out of 7 schools. The school’s Progress 8 banding is officially described as ‘Well below average’, and its national percentile of 86 means only around 14% of schools nationally perform worse on this measure. That said, the school is heavily oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry it received 321 applications for 207 places, with 201 first-preference requests, suggesting local families continue to choose it despite the academic data. The context matters here — Fleetwood High serves a community where 52.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, more than double the national average, which inevitably shapes its headline figures.

On academic outcomes, the picture is mixed. The school’s Attainment 8 score of 37.2 is modest, and only 24.6% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in English and maths (the basics 5 measure), compared with 47.1% at grade 4 or above. The EBacc average point score sits at 3.3, and just 5.8% of pupils entered the full EBacc combination. Breaking down Progress 8 by subject area, the school’s weakest performance is in open subjects (-0.79) and English (-0.62), while the EBacc element (-0.3) is the strongest of the four buckets. Ofsted visited in June 2022 and upgraded the school from Requires Improvement to Good overall, with Good ratings for quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. The previous inspection in 2019 had rated it Requires Improvement overall, so the 2022 judgement represents a clear step forward in the school’s quality.

Fleetwood High is a non-selective, non-denominational 11-16 school with no sixth form. Its facilities are generous for a state secondary: a swimming pool, astro turf, tennis courts, a theatre, music rooms, and a sports hall. The school offers a wide range of SEND provisions, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate and profound learning difficulties, speech and language needs, autistic spectrum disorder, and social, emotional and mental health support. Clubs include art, book club, coding, film club and drama, while sports on offer range from martial arts and hockey to rugby and rounders. The school is oversubscribed with a ratio of 1.55 applicants per place, and 196 first-preference offers were made from 201 first-preference applications. This is a school that local families clearly want to send their children to, and its Good Ofsted rating and broad facilities make it a pragmatic choice for families in Wyre who value pastoral support and a wide curriculum over top-tier academic rankings.

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