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De La Salle School

Secondary school in St. Helens, St Helens. Requires improvement (Jun 2023).

Latest graded inspection

Inspected 6 June 2023, report published 17 July 2023, under the inspection system used from 2019 to 2025.

This grade was given to De La Salle School (its Ofsted page), the school this one replaced when it became an academy. De La Salle School hasn’t been inspected under its own name yet, so Ofsted’s page for it shows no grade.

Requires improvement overall. Not yet good. Schools with this grade were normally inspected again within 30 months. 11% of schools whose latest graded inspection was under this system got Requires improvement.

Grades for each area
AreaGrade
Quality of educationRequires improvement
Behaviour and attitudesGood
Personal developmentGood
Leadership and managementGood
Safeguarding effectiveYes

These grades come from the system Ofsted replaced in November 2025. They stay on record until the school’s next inspection, when it gets a report card instead. More about the old grades.

Next inspection: around December 2025

The last inspection was in June 2023. Schools graded requires improvement were normally inspected again within 30 months. It’s now later than the usual gap, so an inspection could happen at any time.

An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2028 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.

Nearby secondary schools

  1. 1.1 milesCowley International College

    Secondary, St Helens

    Report card, Mar 2026: 2 expected, 5 needs attention

  2. 2.4 milesThe Prescot School

    Secondary, Liverpool, Knowsley

    Requires improvement (May 2024)

  3. 2.5 milesThe Sutton Academy

    Secondary, St Helens

    Report card, Jun 2026: 3 strong, 4 expected

  4. 2.6 milesSt Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy

    Secondary, St. Helens, St Helens

    No overall grade. Quality of education good (Dec 2024)

  5. 2.7 milesSaint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy

    Secondary, Prescot, Knowsley

    Report card, Jun 2026: 6 needs attention

Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.