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Alsop High School

  • 11–18Ages
  • 1,336Pupils
  • SecondaryPhase
  • Sixth formAges 16–18
  • 148226URN

Queens Drive, Liverpool, L4 6SH · School website

This school is due to be replaced by Alsop High School.

Applications per placeCircle size: applicationsThis school
Latest Ofsted

Category of concern: Requires significant improvement

Report card · inspected Feb 2026

  • Exceptional
  • Strong standard
  • Expected standard
  • Needs attention
  • Urgent improvement

Safeguarding standards met

What Ofsted found
Applications per place · Sept 2026
1.2per place
1.2 below Liverpool median (2.4)
Fewer applicationsMore

This schoolOther secondary schools in LiverpoolSelective

322 applications for 263 places · 27th of 30 in Liverpool
Every year since 2014
Attainment 8 · 2025/26 (provisional)
33.1of 90
29th of 31 in Liverpool
All GCSE results

What did Ofsted find?

Ofsted data to 30 September 2026

Ofsted category of concern: Requires significant improvement

Report card · inspected 10 February 2026Published 21 April 2026 · safeguarding standards met · no overall grade
AreaExceptionalStrong standardExpected standardNeeds attentionUrgent improvement
InclusionUrgent improvement
Curriculum and teachingUrgent improvement
AchievementUrgent improvement
Attendance and behaviourUrgent improvement
Personal development and wellbeingNeeds attention
Early yearsDoes not apply to this school
Post-16 provisionUrgent improvement
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
  • Exceptional
  • Strong standard
  • Expected standard
  • Needs attention
  • Urgent improvement
  • Does not apply

Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.

Inspection history

  1. 10 February 2026
    Report card · 2 Needs attention, 5 Urgent improvement
  2. 10 May 2023
    Graded inspection: Requires improvement

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 entry
1.2applications per place, Year 7
1.2 below Liverpool median (2.4) 1.0 below England median (2.2)

322 applications · 263 places offered · 113 named it first

  1. 2026 1.2; Liverpool median median 2.4
  2. 2025 1.4; Liverpool median median 2.7
  3. 2024 1.2; Liverpool median median 2.6
  4. 2023 1.1; Liverpool median median 2.6
  5. 2022 1.2; Liverpool median median 2.6
  6. 2021 1.5; Liverpool median median 2.2
  7. 2020 1.7; Liverpool median median 2.8; as the previous school
  8. 2019 1.9; Liverpool median median 2.6; as the previous school
  9. 2018 1.7; Liverpool median median 2.7; as the previous school
  10. 2017 1.5; Liverpool median median 2.4; as the previous school
  11. 2016 1.5; Liverpool median median 2.2; as the previous school
  12. 2015 1.6; Liverpool median median 2.1; as the previous school
  13. 2014 1.8; Liverpool median median 2.1; as the previous school
More applications per place than the Liverpool median in 0 of 6 years.
  • This school
  • Liverpool median

Dashed bars: as Alsop High School Technology & Applied Learning Specialist College (URN 104693), The Queen Mary School (URN 104694), the previous school.

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.

EntryPlacesApplicationsPer placeFirst preferencesFirst-pref. ratio
Sep 20262633221.21130.43
Sep 20252543541.41240.49
Sep 20242803471.21250.45
Sep 20232863221.11350.47
Sep 20222903531.21610.56
Sep 20212684051.52400.90
Sep 2020 *2694511.72050.76
Sep 2019 *2805191.92911.04
Sep 2018 *2674541.72450.92
Sep 2017 *2703991.52090.77
Sep 2016 *2683921.51990.74
Sep 2015 *2323681.61920.83
Sep 2014 *2033631.81740.86

How did pupils do at GCSE?

DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisional

255 pupils took GCSEs in 2025/26.

Attainment 8 (out of 90)33.129th of 31 in Liverpool
Grade 5 or above in English and maths18%30th of 31 in Liverpool
Grade 4 or above in English and maths33%
  • This school
  • Liverpool median
  • England median
Progress 8 (2023/24, the latest published)−1.72
−20 = national average+2
Every year as a table
YearPupilsAttainment 85+ Eng & maths4+ Eng & mathsProgress 8
2025/26 (prov.)25533.118%33%–
2024/2525228.212%27%–
2023/2425126.615%31%−1.72
2022/2325631.615%34%−1.34

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

  • 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
Secondary
URN · DfE number
148226 · 341/4011
Trust
Omega Multi-Academy Trust
Admissions policy
Non-selective
Capacity
1,800 pupils · 1,336 on roll
Free school meals
57.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
Opened
1 November 2020
Replaced
Alsop High School Technology & Applied Learning Specialist College (URN 104693); The Queen Mary School (URN 104694)
Address
Queens Drive, Liverpool, L4 6SH
Local authority
Liverpool

Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources