Graded inspection · Dec 2022 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in WirralSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry390 applications · 178 places offered · 199 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 2.2; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2025 2.2; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2024 2.0; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2023 2.1; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2022 2.0; Wirral median median 2.2
- 2021 2.0; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2020 1.8; Wirral median median 1.9
- 2019 2.1; Wirral median median 2.0
- 2018 2.0; Wirral median median 2.0
- 2017 1.8; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2016 1.9; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2015 1.8; Wirral median median 2.2
- 2014 1.7; Wirral median median 2.1
- This school
- Wirral median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Selective: register for the entrance test with the school first, usually by the summer before (dates vary). Dates
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 | 178 | 390 | 2.2 | 199 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2025 | 179 | 397 | 2.2 | 226 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2024 | 180 | 357 | 2.0 | 199 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2023 | 177 | 364 | 2.1 | 177 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 179 | 361 | 2.0 | 175 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2021 | 168 | 332 | 2.0 | 177 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2020 | 179 | 314 | 1.8 | 194 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2019 | 179 | 376 | 2.1 | 211 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2018 | 157 | 311 | 2.0 | 160 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2017 | 167 | 304 | 1.8 | 166 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2016 | 149 | 284 | 1.9 | 148 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2015 | 173 | 302 | 1.8 | 198 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2014 | 168 | 293 | 1.7 | 185 | 1.10 |
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.) | 182 | 70.9 | 96% | 99% | – |
| 2024/25 | 180 | 69.3 | 92% | 99% | – |
| 2023/24 | 180 | 67.3 | 89% | 97% | +0.38 |
| 2022/23 | 183 | 70.1 | 92% | 100% | +0.62 |
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
- Wirral Grammar School for GirlsThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20222.2applications per place 70.9Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.1 km · WirralGood20222.5applications per place 68.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.5 km · WirralGood20232.7applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · WirralGood20222.2applications per place 39.4Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · WirralRemains Good20222.5applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · WirralGood20221.9applications per place 38.1Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · LiverpoolRemains Good20231.3applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · WirralGood20234.7applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 5.1 km · Wirral20261.9applications per place 39.1Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 137171 · 344/4052
- Trust
- Wirral Grammar School for Girls
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 1,207 pupils · 1,224 on roll
- Free school meals
- 10.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2011
- Replaced
- Wirral Grammar School for Girls (URN 105098)
- Address
- Heath Road, Bebington, Wirral, CH63 3AF
- Local authority
- Wirral
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources