Mill Green School
Lansbury Avenue, Parr, St Helens, WA9 1BUOpen in maps (opens in a new tab)
Mill Green School is a special school in St Helens for ages 14 to 19. It is one of the 76 schools in St. Helens. Its latest Ofsted inspection, in July 2025, graded each key judgement and gave no overall Ofsted rating.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 1 July 2025, report published 14 September 2025
This inspection graded each key judgement and gave no overall effectiveness grade.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Sixth form provision
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Met
What Ofsted said
From the inspection on 1 July 2025
Pupils at Mill Green School are happy and safe. Each day, staff welcome them into the warm and compassionate environment that has been created at the school. Pupils feel well cared for and supported. In turn, they display positive attitudes throughout the school day. When moving around the school, they behave exceptionally well. Pupils speak about others with respect and kindness. They understand that everyone is unique and that some pupils need more support than others. The school has high expectations for its pupils. All pupils within the school have special educational needs and/or disabilities. Staff have a thorough understanding of pupils' unique and complex needs. Pupils want to do well and are proud of their achievements. They talk with confidence about how the school has helped and supported them and of their ambitions for the future. A well-thought-out programme to promote pupils' personal development ensures that pupils are exceptionally well prepared for their next steps in education and life beyond the school. They benefit enormously from the broad range of rich experiences that are designed to help them become independent. This includes opportunities to take part in outdoor learning and award schemes, varied vocational opportunities and in-depth careers advice and support.
What the school should improve
- The phonics programme is in the early stages of implementation. It is not delivered consistently well. Sometimes, the books that pupils read are not well matched to their phonics knowledge. This stops some pupils from applying their knowledge of phonics successfully and means that they are unable to read with fluency. The school should ensure that staff receive the support that they need to successfully deliver the phonics programme and provide reading books that more closely match the pupils' phonics knowledge.
- In some subjects, the school is not clear enough about the essential knowledge that pupils should learn and when this should be taught. This means that, at times, pupils are not supported to build their knowledge in these subjects as well as they could. The school should ensure that it finalises its curriculum thinking in these subjects so that pupils are supported to deepen their understanding of these subjects over time.
Pupil numbers and mix
168 pupils on roll, with places for 170
Schools near Mill Green School
| School | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lansbury Bridge School | 0.1 miles | Ofsted: Good | 0% met the expected standard |
| This Is My Education - TIME | 1 mile | Ofsted: Requires improvement | Not published |
| Willow Bank School | 2 miles | Report card: Needs attention to expected standard | Attainment 8: 4.8 |
| Ash Meadow School | 2 miles | Ofsted: Good | Not published |
| Progress Arc Billinge School | 3 miles | Ofsted: Good | Attainment 8: 0.6 |
School details
- School type
- Community special school
- Sector
- Local authority maintained
- Age range
- 14 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mr Sean Lenahan
- Phone
- 01744678760
- Address
- Lansbury Avenue, Parr, St Helens, WA9 1BU
- Local authority
- St. Helens
- URN
- 131022
School details from Get Information about Schools, 17 September 2026. Ofsted outcomes published to 31 August 2026. Pupil mix from the school census, 2025/26.