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State secondary schools in Liverpool

33 schools · North West · 2024/25 Department for Education figures

Liverpool has 33 state secondaries, 29 of them with sixth forms, 1 grammar school among them. 68.1% of families got their first choice last year, worse than most of England. Results run from 11.9% to 97.7% passing English and maths, a spread of 86 points, with a middle school at 38%, below England's 45.4%.

Of those Ofsted has graded, 2 rated Outstanding, 15 Good, 6 Requires improvement, 1 Inadequate. 9 schools carry no overall grade at all — either inspected since Ofsted stopped issuing one in September 2024, or never inspected.

33 schools in Liverpool. Tap one, or see the full list.
12% 98% passed English & maths no figure

Liverpool against England

State-funded schools, 2024/25

38%

Passed English & maths grade 5 or above

7.3% below England

England 45%

42.1

Attainment 8 average score

4 below England

England 46.1

24%

Persistently absent missed 10% of sessions

3% above England

England 21%

Getting a place

2026/27 secondary admissions round, across Liverpool

68.1%

Got their first choiceof those who applied

England 84%

86.1%

Got one of their threefirst, second or third

0.1%

Got no offer at allfrom any preference

9%

Appeals upheld58 of 614 heard

These are figures for Liverpool as a whole. A popular school can be much harder to get into than the average suggests, and the criteria that decide it are set by each school's own admission authority rather than centrally. How applying works

How much the choice matters here

Across Liverpool's 31 schools, the share passing English and maths runs from 12% to 98%. That is a spread of 86 percentage points, wider than most councils.

The typical council spans about 48 points. Where schools are close together the school a child gets matters less; where they are far apart it matters a great deal. The widest spreads are all selective areas, where grammar schools sit at one end and everything else at the other.

Liverpool schools, subject by subject

The share reaching grade 4 or above, among schools entering at least 20 pupils. Which pupils take a subject differs a lot between schools, so read this as what happened rather than as a ranking of teaching.

mathsenglish literatureenglish languagehistorycombined sciencegeographyartspanishbiologyphysicschemistryreligious studiescomputer sciencebusiness studiesphysical educationfrenchsociologydesign technology
  1. 1 St Hilda's Church of England High School Liverpool · 132 entries 79%
  2. 2 Liverpool College Liverpool · 100 entries 76%
  3. 3 St Edward's College Liverpool · 102 entries 73%
  4. 4 The Belvedere Academy Liverpool · 90 entries 71%
  5. 5 King David High School Liverpool · 79 entries 71%
  6. 6 Archbishop Blanch CofE High School Liverpool · 123 entries 71%
  7. 7 Holly Lodge Girls' College Liverpool · 145 entries 68%
  8. 8 West Derby School Liverpool · 140 entries 66%
  9. 9 Bellerive FCJ Catholic College Liverpool · 108 entries 63%
  10. 10 Calderstones School Liverpool · 201 entries 63%
  11. 11 The Studio School Liverpool Liverpool · 45 entries 56%
  12. 12 St Julie's Catholic High School Liverpool · 131 entries 54%
  13. 13 St Margaret's Church of England Academy Liverpool · 117 entries 54%
  14. 14 North Liverpool Academy Liverpool · 177 entries 54%
  15. 15 Liverpool Life Sciences UTC Liverpool · 91 entries 52%
  16. 16 Dixons Broadgreen Academy Liverpool · 157 entries 49%
  17. 17 Archbishop Beck Catholic College Liverpool · 174 entries 48%
  18. 18 St John Bosco Arts College Croxteth · 154 entries 47%
  19. 19 Gateacre School Liverpool · 215 entries 46%
  20. 20 Dixons Croxteth Academy Liverpool · 50 entries 46%
  21. 21 Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School Liverpool · 183 entries 45%
  22. 22 Notre Dame Catholic Academy Liverpool · 73 entries 44%
  23. 23 St Francis Xavier's Catholic Academy Liverpool · 146 entries 40%
  24. 24 Dixons Fazakerley Academy Liverpool · 127 entries 39%
  25. 25 The Academy of St Francis of Assisi Liverpool · 123 entries 36%
  26. 26 Broughton Hall Catholic High School Liverpool · 169 entries 30%
  27. 27 Alsop High School Liverpool · 234 entries 29%
  28. 28 Childwall Sports & Science Academy Liverpool · 123 entries 28%
  29. 29 The Academy of St Nicholas Liverpool · 109 entries 21%
  30. 30 King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool Liverpool · 81 entries 15%
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Every school in Liverpool

Schools in neighbouring authorities are not in this list, because admissions run per authority. See bordering areas.

4 of 31 have no spare places. Sort the list, or narrow it first.

Pick up to 4 schools to see them side by side in the comparison tool, subject by subject.

Sixth form · Key stage 5·2024/25

A levels in Liverpool

27 of Liverpool's 29 sixth forms publish A level results. Ranked on the share reaching AAB or better in at least two of the subjects universities name, which is the measure the steepest entry requirements are written in.

Sixth form Grade AAB+

A level results only. A sixth form running mostly BTECs and other applied courses will show a dash here and can still be the right one — those are graded on their own scale, where a distinction and an A grade carry the same points and mean different things.

Bordering Liverpool

Near a boundary, schools on both sides are usually in reach. Whether a child can apply is set by each school's admission criteria, not by the border.

Halton 8 schools · 39% passed English & mathsKnowsley 6 schools · 25% passed English & mathsSefton 18 schools · 40% passed English & maths

What these mean

Attainment 8
The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
Grades 4 and 5
GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
Persistent absence
The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
First preference
The share of families who were offered the school they ranked first on their application, on national offer day in March. This figure is calculated across the relevant schools or admissions authority, so a high overall figure does not necessarily mean that every individual school is easy to get into.
Spare places
The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
Average A-level grade
The average grade achieved across students' A-level entries. This is different from measures such as the proportion achieving AAB or better in two or more facilitating subjects, which are sometimes used to indicate higher attainment and university-entry performance.
Covers state-funded schools in England; independent schools are not included, and neither the list nor the subject figures above take account of them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Key stage 4 performance and school characteristics: Department for Education, 2024/25. Inspection outcomes: Ofsted.