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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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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 entry144 applications · 176 places offered · 64 named it first
- 2026 0.8; Liverpool median median 2.4
- 2025 0.8; Liverpool median median 2.7
- 2024 1.1; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2023 0.9; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2022 1.1; Liverpool median median 2.6
- 2021 1.2; Liverpool median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2020 1.7; Liverpool median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2019 1.6; Liverpool median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2018 1.5; Liverpool median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 1.8; Liverpool median median 2.4; as the previous school
- 2016 1.8; Liverpool median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2015 1.6; Liverpool median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 1.8; Liverpool median median 2.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Liverpool median
Dashed bars: as Fazakerley High School (URN 104692), 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.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 176 | 144 | 0.8 | 64 | 0.36 |
| Sep 2025 | 137 | 109 | 0.8 | 57 | 0.42 |
| Sep 2024 | 148 | 159 | 1.1 | 57 | 0.39 |
| Sep 2023 | 185 | 160 | 0.9 | 61 | 0.33 |
| Sep 2022 | 182 | 193 | 1.1 | 85 | 0.47 |
| Sep 2021 * | 150 | 174 | 1.2 | 81 | 0.54 |
| Sep 2020 * | 147 | 242 | 1.7 | 92 | 0.63 |
| Sep 2019 * | 176 | 279 | 1.6 | 112 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2018 * | 158 | 240 | 1.5 | 110 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2017 * | 178 | 320 | 1.8 | 150 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2016 * | 178 | 317 | 1.8 | 166 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2015 * | 156 | 248 | 1.6 | 123 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2014 * | 140 | 245 | 1.8 | 120 | 0.86 |
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.) | 157 | 35.9 | 25% | 41% | – |
| 2024/25 | 145 | 33.4 | 20% | 45% | – |
| 2023/24 | 170 | 33.7 | 17% | 40% | −1.08 |
| 2022/23 | 160 | 30.2 | 18% | 41% | −1.42 |
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
- Dixons Fazakerley AcademyThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20240.8applications per place 35.9Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · Liverpool20263.9applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Liverpool20262.2applications per place 40.1Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · KnowsleyGood20222.0applications per place 34.8Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · LiverpoolSpecial measures 20261.3applications per place 35.0Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · Knowsley20262.3applications per place 40.6Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · SeftonSpecial measures 20261.9applications per place 34.2Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · LiverpoolRequires significant improvement 20261.2applications per place 33.1Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · SeftonGood20231.4applications per place 35.7Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 148655 · 341/4012
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,012 pupils · 737 on roll
- Free school meals
- 49.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2021
- Replaced
- Fazakerley High School (URN 104692)
- Address
- Sherwoods Lane, Fazakerley, Liverpool, L10 1LB
- Local authority
- Liverpool
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources