Overall Oxbridge
#471
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
2
Offers
1
Offer rate50.0%
+27.6 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
One of England's earliest centres of the watch and clock trade, Prescot's manufacturing chapter spanned three centuries before deindustrialisation took hold and a new chapter of renewal followed. The Shakespeare North Playhouse, a circular Jacobean-style theatre that opened in 2022, has become the most visible emblem of that shift in this corner of Merseyside, east of Liverpool.
Rainhill is among the most school-competitive areas in the wider borough, while Whiston and Eccleston Lane Ends draw families weighing up primary and secondary places on the town's fringes. Prescot and Eccleston Park stations connect to Liverpool Lime Street via Merseyrail in around twenty minutes. Around 12,800 people live in the civil parish today.
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Area Performance
Across 17 primary and secondary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.29/10, -0.06 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Prescot schools
Prescot vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Prescot schools
top 44% of 14,978
top 44% of 14,978
top 64% of 3,862
top 64% of 3,862
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
2
Offers
1
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · +409 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
2
Offers
1
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