Helsby Hillside Primary School, Frodsham
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 6 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Helsby Hillside is a warm, welcoming school where children enjoy coming to school and achieve well. The school prioritises reading and has redesigned its curriculum to be ambitious and balanced, with staff receiving excellent training to teach it effectively. Strong behaviour expectations and excellent support for all learners, including those with additional needs, means pupils feel safe and valued.
Key Strengths
- Pupils progress well through the curriculum with national test results typically outperforming other schools
- Strong behaviour and attendance, with pupils following clear expectations and moving calmly around school
- Well-designed, ambitious curriculum with effective teaching of reading, writing and mathematics
- Excellent support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, enabling them to learn alongside peers
- High-quality training and strong staff wellbeing support from leaders
Areas for Improvement
- Attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their non-disadvantaged peers needs further closing, particularly in writing
- Leaders' systems for checking how disadvantaged pupils and some pupils with SEND are learning could be more precise
- Attendance rates for disadvantaged pupils, though improving, still need further development
- Staff could use checks on learning more consistently to spot and correct writing errors quickly
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met with leaders establishing an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified and managed.
Extracurricular Activities
Residential trips, sports matches and events for all pupils, music tuition, outdoor learning, wellbeing days
Helsby Hillside Primary School is a welcoming school where pupils enjoy learning and achieve well overall. Most pupils make good progress across the curriculum, though a gap remains between disadvantaged pupils and their non-disadvantaged peers.
At a Glance
8.9%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 81% to 86%. Maths has declined from 88% to 79%. Writing has remained stable at around 79%.
Class Sizes
28.1
Avg class size
27.0
Infant (KS1)
29.0
KS2
7
Total classes
1 class with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
96%
Near capacity
202 pupils
210 capacity
8 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Frodsham
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Frodsham
Admissions Demand - Cheshire West and Chester
Places available
4,393
Applications
3,189
Got 1st preference
92.5%
Got preferred school
98.7%
Primary admissions across Cheshire West and Chester (2025/26)
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
4.83981%
Overall absence
9.24855%
Persistent absence
173
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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