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Living in Lymm with children

Lymm, Warrington. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 11,547 people in 4,855 households; 31.5% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).

4schools in Lymm
£368ktypical semi, 12 months
46crimes a year per 1,000 people
92%gigabit broadband

Schools

4 schools: 3 state primary, 1 state secondary
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Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: Warrington 68%ResultOfsted
1Statham Primary SchoolPrimary · Top 5% (3/67) · 90%School remains Good
2Ravenbank Primary SchoolPrimary · Top 29% (19/67) · 77%Good
3Oughtrington Primary SchoolPrimary · (55/67) · 57%Good
Secondary: attainment 8, 2026 results (DfE) · red mark: Warrington 49.4ResultOfsted
1Lymm High SchoolSecondary · 1st (1/12) · 58.5Good
Every school in Lymm, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (3)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Statham Primary SchoolSchool remains GoodTop 5% (3/67) in Warrington—
Ravenbank Primary SchoolGoodTop 29% (19/67) in Warrington0.899 miles (2026)
Oughtrington Primary SchoolGood(55/67) in Warrington0.307 miles (2026)

State secondary schools (1)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Lymm High SchoolGood1st (1/12) in Warrington3.914 miles (2026)

Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)
Detached£595,000
Semi-detached£368,000
Terraced£333,000
Flat or maisonette£172,000

The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (45 detached, 68 semi-detached, 28 terraced, 25 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Lymm. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
0railway stations within 2 km
38bus stops within 1 km of the town centre

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 92% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 94%, on average across the 456 postcodes in WA13. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
46.5 a year per 1,000 peopleCrimeInside the town's outline, September 2025 to August 2026. The most common: violent crime, anti social behaviour, public order. Source: data.police.uk, street-level crime inside the ONS built-up area outline; people from Census 2021. A town centre with shops and pubs records more crime per resident than a suburb.
Flood zone 1FloodAt the town centre, the area is in flood zone 1 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning (not in zone 2 or 3, the lowest of the three). Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 8.7AirAt the town centre, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 8.7 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 6.3 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 10.7 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices
6registered nurseries and pre-schools
£100a day, the one day rate published

What Ofsted found: 2 outstanding; 4 good, or expected standard. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.17 an hour for a two-year-old.

All of them: 6 in Warrington.

Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.

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Key dates, Warrington

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Warrington.

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