Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Inadequate | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Inadequate | |||
| Personal development | Inadequate | |||
| Leadership and management | Inadequate | |||
| Early years provision | Inadequate |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 applications · 0 places offered · 0 named it first
Small intakeFewer than 60 places, so not ranked.
- 2025 5.1; Liverpool median median 2.7
- 2024 6.0; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2023 5.0; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2022 4.2; Liverpool median median 2.6
- This school
- Liverpool median
Reception entry, September 2026: per place (1 applications for 0 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Sep 2025 | 56 | 283 | 5.1 | 65 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2024 | 51 | 307 | 6.0 | 81 | 1.59 |
| Sep 2023 | 60 | 300 | 5.0 | 81 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2022 | 51 | 212 | 4.2 | 71 | 1.39 |
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.) | 53 | 38.0 | 25% | 45% | – |
| 2024/25 | 0 | – | |||
| 2023/24 | 0 | – | |||
| 2022/23 | 0 | – |
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
- LIPA SchoolThis schoolThis schoolSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade202538.0Attainment 8
- 0.6 km · LiverpoolStandards maintained202543.6Attainment 8
- 0.6 km · LiverpoolRemains Good202446.1Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · LiverpoolGraded · no overall grade20254.4applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · LiverpoolStandards maintained20254.3applications per place
- 2.3 km · Liverpool20263.2applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · LiverpoolRemains Good20231.3applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · Liverpool20267.9applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Liverpool20263.6applications per place 50.5Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 141103 · 341/2020
- Trust
- The Lipa Multi Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 572 pupils · 499 on roll
- Free school meals
- 37.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2014
- Address
- Upper Duke Street, Liverpool, L1 7BT
- Local authority
- Liverpool
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources