Mill Green School
Mill Green School is a council special school in St Helens for boys and girls aged 14 to 19. It has 168 pupils and room for 170. About 52 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in England. Ofsted's last grade was inspected 2025, no overall grade.
Lansbury Avenue, Parr, St Helens, WA9 1BU01744 678760millgreen.org.ukMr Sean Lenahan headteacherAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted's last full inspection was on 1 July 2025, back when it gave schools one overall grade. Read the report on Ofsted's website.
Not judged Between September 2024 and November 2025, Ofsted graded each area but stopped giving one overall word.
Earlier inspections (1)
| Date | Type | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2024 | Ungraded | School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next |
Results
GCSE results, summer 2025
39 pupils sat their GCSEs. Here is how they did against every state secondary in England.
The government hasn't published this school's headline results. That usually means the year group was too small to publish without identifying children.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to St. Helens council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
Specialist SEND provision. A special school for pupils with autism, hearing impairment, moderate learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, social, emotional and mental health, speech, language and communication, severe learning difficulties, specific learning difficulties, visual impairment.
To get a place in the unit or resourced provision, a child normally needs an education, health and care plan (EHCP) that names the school. Other schools in St. Helens with autism provision.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: Autistic spectrum disorder (90), Severe learning difficulty (34), Moderate learning difficulty (13), Profound and multiple learning difficulty (9), Specific learning difficulty (9), Physical disability (7).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 168 | 151 | 135 | 116 | 110 | 105 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 46% | 42% | 49% | 53% | 56% | 53% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 3% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 1% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 91.8% of the time. Across similar schools in England it was 94.8%.
Attendance year by year
| Measure | 2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2018/19 | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions missedOverall absence | 8.2% | 8.6% | 9.3% | 12.4% | 24.5% | 7.8% | 5.2% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 7.0% | 7.3% | 8.2% | 11.6% | 24.5% | 7.7% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 1.2% | 1.3% | 1.1% | 0.8% | 0.0% | 0.1% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 25.7% | 26.3% | 29.5% | 34.0% | 76.2% | 18.8% | 12.8% |
| SuspensionsSuspension rate | 15.2 | 10.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | – | – |
| Permanent exclusionsPermanent exclusions | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
What pupils do next
After GCSEs
Where the 25 pupils who left in 2022/23 were a year later.
Among pupils from low-income families it was 100%, compared with 100% for everyone else.
Earlier years
| Destination | 2022/23 leavers | 2021/22 leavers | 2020/21 leavers | 2019/20 leavers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still in education, work or training | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Education | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Work | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Not in education, work or training | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the council school accounts, year to March 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other special schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lansbury Bridge School | Council | 100 m | 236 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Pace | Pupil referral unit | 590 m | 16 | No overall grade 2025 | – | Compare |
| Allanson Street Primary School | Council | 760 m | 454 | Good 2024 | 47 | Compare |
| St. Cuthbert's Catholic Academy | Academy | 760 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Broad Oak Community Primary School | Council | 810 m | 630 | No overall grade 2024 | 18 | Compare |
| Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School | Roman Catholic | 920 m | 213 | Not inspected | 45 | Compare |
| St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy | Academy | 0.6 miles | 549 | No overall grade 2024 | 49 | Compare |
| Merton Bank Primary School | Council | 0.8 miles | 193 | Requires improvement 2024 | 2 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Mill Green School a good school?
Mill Green School doesn't have a score yet. Ofsted rated it not judged at its last inspection in July 2025.
What is Mill Green School's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted rated Mill Green School not judged at its last full inspection on 1 July 2025.
How many pupils does Mill Green School have?
168 pupils aged 14 to 19 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 170 places, so it is 99% full.
What is attendance like at Mill Green School?
Pupils were in school 91.8% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 26% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
Does Mill Green School have specialist SEND provision?
Yes. It is a special school for autism, hearing impairment, moderate learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, social, emotional and mental health, speech, language and communication, severe learning difficulties, specific learning difficulties, visual impairment. To get a place there, a child normally needs an education, health and care plan (EHCP) that names the school.
Does Mill Green School have a sixth form?
Yes.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Lansbury Avenue, Parr, St Helens, WA9 1BU
- Telephone
- 01744 678760
- Website
- www.millgreen.org.uk
- Headteacher
- Mr Sean Lenahan
- Type of school
- Council special school (Community special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 14-19, with sixth form
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- Ward
- Parr
- Constituency
- St Helens North
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 September 1996
- URN
- 131022 · LAESTAB 3427007 · UKPRN 10016659
- Formerly
- Ashtons Green School, Mill House School
Recent changes
- New KS4 results for 2024/25
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- GCSE results: DfE key stage 4 performance tables, 2024/25 final.
- Attendance: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25 full year.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, consistent financial reporting 2024/25.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.