Dean Trust Wigan
Greenhey, Wigan, WN5 0DQ
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Trust
- THE DEAN TRUST
- Headteacher
- Mrs Jen Evans
- Sponsor
- The Dean Trust
- Constituency
- Wigan
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 1,025
- Pupils on roll
- 715
- URN
- 144519
- Local authority
- Wigan
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01942511987
About this school
Dean Trust Wigan is a secondary academy in Wigan. It teaches children aged 11 to 16 and has 715 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Overall judgement at the last full inspection
This inspection took place under the previous framework, which gave a single overall grade. Ofsted now publishes report cards instead, so newer inspections of other schools will look different. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 137 | 151 | 159 |
| Attainment 8 score | 30.4 | 31.4 | 33.1 |
| Progress 8 score | -1.52 -1.76 to -1.27 | -1.12 -1.35 to -0.89 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 14% | 19.2% | 22.6% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 29% | 33.1% | 37.7% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 55% | 54.3% | 60.4% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 2.8 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Dean Trust Wigan has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Wigan average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 30.4 | 36.1 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 31.4 | 34.4 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 33.1 | 36.6 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 12.6% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 11.5% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 9% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 791 |
| 2023/24 | 808 |
| 2024/25 | 770 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Dean Trust Wigan compares
Dean Trust Wigan ranked 19th of 19 secondary schools in Wigan for Attainment 8 in 2024/25. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 24% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 11% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 33.1 | 9% | 57.3% | 715 | — |
| St Peter's Catholic High School | 51.1 | 5.7% | 11.3% | 1,026 | 0.5 miles |
| Up Holland High School | 48.8 | 8.3% | 23.9% | 874 | 1.5 miles |
| St John Fisher Catholic High School | 41.3 | 8.9% | 32.9% | 998 | 1.9 miles |
| The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College | 45.7 | 8.8% | 30.6% | 1,365 | 2.1 miles |
| Hawkley Hall High School | 40.4 | 9.2% | 24.9% | 1,170 | 2.5 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 57.27%
- English as an additional language
- 11.3%
- Overall absence
- 9.04%
- Persistent absence
- 26.14%
Location
Nearby schools
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St Peter's Catholic High School0.5 miles
Secondary · Wigan
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Up Holland High School1.5 miles
Secondary · Wigan
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St John Fisher Catholic High School1.9 miles
Secondary · Wigan
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The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College2.1 miles
Secondary · Wigan
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Hawkley Hall High School2.5 miles
Secondary · Wigan
Other schools in Wigan
Dean Trust Wigan ranks 13th of the 13 ranked secondary schools in Wigan.
- Cansfield High School Secondary
- Dean Trust Rose Bridge Secondary
- Hawkley Hall High School Secondary
- Outwood Academy Hindley Secondary
- Shevington High School Secondary
- St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield Secondary
- St John Fisher Catholic High School Secondary
- St Peter's Catholic High School Secondary
- Standish Community High School Secondary
- The Byrchall High School Secondary
- The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College Secondary
- Up Holland High School Secondary
Common questions
- What year groups does Dean Trust Wigan teach?
- Dean Trust Wigan teaches children aged 11 to 16. It is a secondary school in Wigan.
- Who is the headteacher of Dean Trust Wigan?
- The headteacher of Dean Trust Wigan is Mrs Jen Evans, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Dean Trust Wigan last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Dean Trust Wigan, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Dean Trust Wigan?
- Dean Trust Wigan has 715 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 16.
- Is Dean Trust Wigan full?
- Dean Trust Wigan has capacity for 1,025 pupils and 715 on roll (70%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Dean Trust Wigan a faith school?
- No. Dean Trust Wigan has no designated religious character.
- Who runs Dean Trust Wigan?
- Dean Trust Wigan is part of THE DEAN TRUST. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- How have Dean Trust Wigan's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 30.4 in 2022/23 and 33.1 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Dean Trust Wigan rank locally?
- Dean Trust Wigan ranked 19th of 19 secondary schools in Wigan for Attainment 8. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 24% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 11% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Dean Trust Wigan's absence rate?
- Dean Trust Wigan's overall absence rate is 9% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Dean Trust Wigan's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Dean Trust Wigan's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 10 July 2026.