Living in Prescot with children
Prescot, Knowsley and St. Helens. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 39,227 people in 17,117 households; 27.2% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
17 schools: 14 state primary, 2 state secondary, 1 privatePrescot on the schools map →Every school in Prescot, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (14)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evelyn Community Primary School | School remains Good | Top 11% (5/49) in Knowsley | 2.123 miles (2026) |
| St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 12% (6/53) in St. Helens | 1.145 miles (2025) |
| Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School | Outstanding | Top 16% (8/53) in St. Helens | 0.487 miles (2025) |
| Prescot Primary School | Good | Top 15% (7/49) in Knowsley | 1.449 miles (2024) |
| St Ann's Church of England Primary School | Good | Top 21% (11/53) in St. Helens | — |
| St Leo's and Southmead Catholic Primary School Serving the Community | School remains Good | Top 19% (9/49) in Knowsley | — |
| St Luke's Catholic Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 27% (13/49) in Knowsley | — |
| Halsnead Primary School | Good | Top 33% (16/49) in Knowsley | — |
| Whiston Willis Primary Academy | Outstanding | Top 47% (23/49) in Knowsley | 1.609 miles (2026) |
| St John Fisher Catholic Primary School | Good | (31/49) in Knowsley | — |
| Our Lady's Catholic Primary School | School remains Good | (36/49) in Knowsley | 0.493 miles (2026) |
| Oakdene Primary Academy | Good | (45/53) in St. Helens | 1.158 miles (2025) |
| St Mary and St Paul's CofE Primary School | Good | (45/49) in Knowsley | — |
| Knowsley Village School | Good | (46/49) in Knowsley | — |
State secondary schools (2)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainhill High School | Good | 1st (1/8) in St. Helens | 3.309 miles (2026) |
| Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy | Requires improvement | (6/6) in Knowsley | — |
Private schools (1)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tower College | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
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)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (55 detached, 107 semi-detached, 69 terraced, 22 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Prescot. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Prescot →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)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 97%, on average across the 1,094 postcodes in L35, L34. 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 varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 4 good, or expected standard; 2 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £6.17 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 6 in Knowsley.
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.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Knowsley
The next dates for families applyingApplication deadlines and offer days: Knowsley · St. Helens.
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