Overall Oxbridge
#137
2 ranked schools · +777 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
127
Offers
28
Offer rate22.1%
-0.3 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Once the industrial centre of one of Britain's densest coalfields, Wigan has remade itself around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, its post-industrial identity now anchored by the Wigan Pier quarter, made famous by George Orwell's 1937 account of the town's working-class hardships. The coalfields are long gone. Around 107,000 people live in Wigan, with the wider borough home to over 330,000.
Wigan Town Centre forms the commercial and civic core, with Orrell to the southwest widely regarded as one of the borough's most competitive pockets for state school catchments and Ashton-in-Makerfield to the south attracting families competing for primary places. Parbold and Standish extend the residential belt further across this Greater Manchester borough, and Northern Rail trains connect the town to Manchester in around thirty minutes.
Area Performance
Across 91 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.62/10, +0.24 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Wigan schools
Wigan vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Wigan schools
top 42% of 14,978
top 42% of 14,978
top 65% of 3,862
top 65% of 3,862
top 57% of 2,555
top 57% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
2 ranked schools · +777 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
127
Offers
28
Oxford
2 ranked schools · +154 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
80
Offers
14
Cambridge
2 ranked schools · +94 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
47
Offers
14
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