Graded inspection · Apr 2024 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 | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| 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 entry580 applications · 186 places offered · 136 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.1; Liverpool median median 2.4
- 2025 3.0; Liverpool median median 2.7
- 2024 2.9; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2023 3.2; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2022 3.7; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2021 3.5; Liverpool median median 2.2
- 2020 3.9; Liverpool median median 2.8
- 2019 3.2; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2018 3.4; Liverpool median median 2.7
- 2017 3.6; Liverpool median median 2.4
- 2016 2.6; Liverpool median median 2.2
- 2015 2.2; Liverpool median median 2.1
- 2014 2.4; 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 | 186 | 580 | 3.1 | 136 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2025 | 184 | 557 | 3.0 | 107 | 0.58 |
| Sep 2024 | 180 | 519 | 2.9 | 104 | 0.58 |
| Sep 2023 | 164 | 521 | 3.2 | 98 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2022 | 157 | 575 | 3.7 | 127 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2021 | 160 | 560 | 3.5 | 135 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2020 | 160 | 619 | 3.9 | 170 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2019 | 180 | 579 | 3.2 | 180 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 160 | 541 | 3.4 | 141 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2017 | 159 | 576 | 3.6 | 189 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2016 | 160 | 420 | 2.6 | 158 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2015 | 160 | 359 | 2.2 | 157 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2014 | 149 | 360 | 2.4 | 172 | 1.15 |
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.) | 152 | 48.7 | 53% | 72% | – |
| 2024/25 | 171 | 49.6 | 54% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 184 | 50.2 | 60% | 76% | −0.10 |
| 2022/23 | 159 | 51.6 | 57% | 77% | −0.09 |
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
- St Margaret's Church of England AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20243.1applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · LiverpoolStandards maintained202510.2applications per place 50.6Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · LiverpoolRemains Good20231.3applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Liverpool20267.9applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Liverpool20263.2applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · LiverpoolGood20235.1applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · LiverpoolGraded · no overall grade20254.4applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · LiverpoolGood20222.2applications per place 78.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 3.1 km · LiverpoolGood20220.9applications per place 35.2Attainment 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
- 138850 · 341/5402
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 1,050 pupils · 1,000 on roll
- Free school meals
- 25.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 October 2012
- Replaced
- St Margaret's Church of England High School (URN 104720)
- Address
- Aigburth Road, Liverpool, L17 6AB
- Local authority
- Liverpool
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources