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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 | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 18 June 2025Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained
- 26 November 2019Graded inspection: 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 entry1,668 applications · 164 places offered · 317 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 10.2; Liverpool median median 2.4
- 2025 9.5; Liverpool median median 2.7
- 2024 9.5; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2023 10.2; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2022 8.5; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2021 11.9; Liverpool median median 2.2
- 2020 9.6; Liverpool median median 2.8
- 2019 9.7; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2018 8.6; Liverpool median median 2.7
- 2017 8.4; Liverpool median median 2.4
- 2016 5.7; Liverpool median median 2.2
- 2015 6.6; Liverpool median median 2.1
- 2014 6.6; Liverpool median median 2.1
- This school
- Liverpool median
Reception entry, September 2026: 5.9 per place (519 applications for 88 places).
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 164 | 1,668 | 10.2 | 317 | 1.93 |
| Sep 2025 | 171 | 1,625 | 9.5 | 347 | 2.03 |
| Sep 2024 | 170 | 1,613 | 9.5 | 414 | 2.44 |
| Sep 2023 | 169 | 1,715 | 10.2 | 446 | 2.64 |
| Sep 2022 | 171 | 1,454 | 8.5 | 474 | 2.77 |
| Sep 2021 | 145 | 1,721 | 11.9 | 511 | 3.52 |
| Sep 2020 | 145 | 1,398 | 9.6 | 381 | 2.63 |
| Sep 2019 | 146 | 1,413 | 9.7 | 410 | 2.81 |
| Sep 2018 | 139 | 1,196 | 8.6 | 376 | 2.71 |
| Sep 2017 | 139 | 1,163 | 8.4 | 406 | 2.92 |
| Sep 2016 | 139 | 791 | 5.7 | 353 | 2.54 |
| Sep 2015 | 99 | 648 | 6.6 | 276 | 2.79 |
| Sep 2014 | 96 | 637 | 6.6 | 260 | 2.71 |
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.) | 145 | 50.6 | 57% | 75% | – |
| 2024/25 | 148 | 55.1 | 66% | 81% | – |
| 2023/24 | 147 | 55.0 | 66% | 80% | +0.29 |
| 2022/23 | 144 | 57.2 | 72% | 88% | +0.32 |
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
- Liverpool CollegeThis schoolThis schoolStandards maintained202510.2applications per place 50.6Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · Liverpool20267.9applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · LiverpoolGood20222.2applications per place 78.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.5 km · LiverpoolGood20243.1applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 1.5 km · LiverpoolGood20235.1applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · Liverpool20263.2applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · LiverpoolGood20225.9applications per place 55.4Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · LiverpoolGraded · no overall grade20254.4applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · LiverpoolStandards maintained20254.3applications per place
- 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
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 139686 · 341/4004
- Trust
- Liverpool College Independent School Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 1,100 pupils · 1,685 on roll
- Free school meals
- 18.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2013
- Replaced
- Liverpool College International (URN 104722)
- Address
- Queen's Drive, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, L18 8BG
- Local authority
- Liverpool
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources