Living in Runcorn with children
Runcorn, Halton and Cheshire West and Chester. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 61,641 people in 27,247 households; 28.3% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
34 schools: 29 state primary, 5 state secondaryRuncorn on the schools map →Every school in Runcorn, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (29)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle View Primary School | Good | Top 9% (4/49) in Halton | — |
| St Clement's Catholic Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 11% (5/49) in Halton | 0.529 miles (2026) |
| Palace Fields Primary Academy | Standards maintained | Top 19% (9/49) in Halton | — |
| Windmill Hill Primary School | Good | Top 21% (10/49) in Halton | — |
| St Berteline's CofE Primary School | Good | Top 25% (12/49) in Halton | 0.446 miles (2026) |
| Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School | Ofsted report card | Top 27% (13/49) in Halton | — |
| Beechwood Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 31% (15/49) in Halton | 0.985 miles (2026) |
| Halton Lodge Nursery & Primary School | Requires improvement | Top 33% (16/49) in Halton | — |
| Pewithall School | Good | Top 35% (17/49) in Halton | — |
| Woodside Primary School | Good | Top 37% (18/49) in Halton | — |
| St Martin's Catholic Primary School and Preschool | Ofsted report card | Top 43% (21/49) in Halton | — |
| Victoria Road Primary School | School remains Good | Top 49% (24/49) in Halton | — |
| Brookvale Primary School | Good | (26/49) in Halton | — |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School | — | (27/49) in Halton | — |
| Hallwood Park Primary School and Nursery | Inadequate | (29/49) in Halton | — |
| Aston by Sutton Primary School | Good | (80/122) in Cheshire West and Chester | — |
| Gorsewood Primary School | School remains Good | (30/49) in Halton | — |
| Weston Primary School | Good | (30/49) in Halton | 1.75 miles (2026) |
| Hillview Primary School | School remains Good | (32/49) in Halton | — |
| Murdishaw West Primary and Nursery School | Good | (35/49) in Halton | — |
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | Good | (37/49) in Halton | — |
| The Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School | Good | (38/49) in Halton | — |
| Runcorn All Saints CofE Primary School | Good | (39/49) in Halton | — |
| Westfield Primary School | Good | (43/49) in Halton | — |
| Bridgewater Park Primary School | Ofsted report card | (44/49) in Halton | — |
| St Edward's Catholic Primary School | Good | (44/49) in Halton | — |
| Astmoor Primary School | Good | (46/49) in Halton | — |
| The Brow Community Primary School | Good | (48/49) in Halton | — |
| Weston Point Primary Academy | Inadequate | (49/49) in Halton | — |
State secondary schools (5)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandymoor Ormiston Academy | Good | Top 25% (2/8) in Halton | 2.66 miles (2026) |
| The Heath School | Good | Top 38% (3/8) in Halton | — |
| Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic and Church of England Academy | Requires improvement | (5/8) in Halton | — |
| Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy | Ofsted report card | (7/8) in Halton | — |
| The Grange School | Good | (8/8) in Halton | — |
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 (118 detached, 180 semi-detached, 172 terraced, 22 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Runcorn. 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 Runcorn →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 95% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 1,283 postcodes in WA7. 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: 2 outstanding; 20 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: 24 in Halton.
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, Halton
The next dates for families applyingApplication deadlines and offer days: Halton · Cheshire West and Chester.
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