Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in LiverpoolSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry829 applications · 188 places offered · 345 named it first
- 2026 4.4; Liverpool median median 2.4
- 2025 4.5; Liverpool median median 2.7
- 2024 4.7; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2023 4.7; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2022 4.3; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2021 5.7; Liverpool median median 2.2
- 2020 5.7; Liverpool median median 2.8
- 2019 5.7; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2018 6.7; Liverpool median median 2.7
- 2017 5.5; Liverpool median median 2.4
- 2016 4.4; Liverpool median median 2.2
- 2015 4.7; Liverpool median median 2.1
- 2014 4.8; Liverpool median median 2.1
- This school
- Liverpool median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 188 | 829 | 4.4 | 345 | 1.84 |
| Sep 2025 | 174 | 779 | 4.5 | 289 | 1.66 |
| Sep 2024 | 181 | 848 | 4.7 | 348 | 1.92 |
| Sep 2023 | 179 | 832 | 4.7 | 345 | 1.93 |
| Sep 2022 | 180 | 776 | 4.3 | 287 | 1.59 |
| Sep 2021 | 155 | 875 | 5.7 | 286 | 1.85 |
| Sep 2020 | 153 | 872 | 5.7 | 341 | 2.23 |
| Sep 2019 | 155 | 877 | 5.7 | 374 | 2.41 |
| Sep 2018 | 128 | 853 | 6.7 | 390 | 3.05 |
| Sep 2017 | 130 | 712 | 5.5 | 315 | 2.42 |
| Sep 2016 | 130 | 569 | 4.4 | 308 | 2.37 |
| Sep 2015 | 120 | 563 | 4.7 | 305 | 2.54 |
| Sep 2014 | 120 | 580 | 4.8 | 339 | 2.83 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 151 | 52.4 | 55% | 73% | – |
| 2024/25 | 156 | 53.8 | 60% | 79% | – |
| 2023/24 | 153 | 57.1 | 63% | 80% | +0.17 |
| 2022/23 | 130 | 54.7 | 55% | 76% | +0.11 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Belvedere AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.4applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · Liverpool20263.2applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 0.8 km · LiverpoolRemains Good20231.3applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · Liverpool20267.9applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · LiverpoolStandards maintained20254.3applications per place
- 1.8 km · LiverpoolStandards maintained202543.6Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · LiverpoolRemains Good202446.1Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · LiverpoolSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade202538.0Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · LiverpoolStandards maintained202510.2applications per place 50.6Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135174 · 341/6907
- Trust
- Gdst Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,014 pupils · 1,182 on roll
- Free school meals
- 31.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2007
- Replaced
- The Belvedere Preparatory School (URN 104729)
- Address
- 17 Belvidere Road, Princes Park, Liverpool, L8 3TF
- Local authority
- Liverpool
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources