Graded inspection · Nov 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| 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 entry460 applications · 207 places offered · 195 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.2; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2025 2.0; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2024 1.8; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2023 2.1; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2022 2.2; Wirral median median 2.2
- 2021 2.8; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2020 2.4; Wirral median median 1.9
- 2019 2.7; Wirral median median 2.0
- 2018 2.9; Wirral median median 2.0
- 2017 3.2; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2016 3.5; Wirral median median 2.1
- 2015 3.2; Wirral median median 2.2
- 2014 3.2; Wirral median median 2.1
- This school
- Wirral 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 | 207 | 460 | 2.2 | 195 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2025 | 268 | 540 | 2.0 | 256 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2024 | 237 | 421 | 1.8 | 186 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2023 | 258 | 529 | 2.1 | 207 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2022 | 269 | 592 | 2.2 | 255 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2021 | 268 | 747 | 2.8 | 333 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2020 | 268 | 631 | 2.4 | 296 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2019 | 269 | 716 | 2.7 | 326 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2018 | 247 | 717 | 2.9 | 366 | 1.48 |
| Sep 2017 | 251 | 790 | 3.2 | 400 | 1.59 |
| Sep 2016 | 229 | 795 | 3.5 | 358 | 1.56 |
| Sep 2015 | 229 | 726 | 3.2 | 340 | 1.48 |
| Sep 2014 | 226 | 720 | 3.2 | 345 | 1.53 |
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.) | 265 | 39.4 | 32% | 53% | – |
| 2024/25 | 267 | 37.2 | 29% | 50% | – |
| 2023/24 | 269 | 38.7 | 27% | 48% | −0.35 |
| 2022/23 | 261 | 39.0 | 27% | 51% | −0.57 |
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 John Plessington Catholic CollegeThis schoolThis schoolGood20222.2applications per place 39.4Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · WirralGood20232.7applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · WirralOutstanding20222.2applications per place 70.9Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.3 km · WirralGood20222.5applications per place 68.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.6 km · WirralRemains Good20222.5applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · LiverpoolRemains Good20231.3applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · Wirral20261.9applications per place 39.1Attainment 8
- 4.3 km · WirralGood20234.7applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · LiverpoolStandards maintained202543.6Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 139031 · 344/4605
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,800 pupils · 1,556 on roll
- Free school meals
- 42.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 December 2012
- Replaced
- St John Plessington Catholic College (URN 105109)
- Address
- Old Chester Road, Bebington, Wirral, CH63 7LF
- Local authority
- Wirral
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources