North West
Secondary schools in Liverpool
183 schools, 78,278 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 35.5.
Ofsted across Liverpool
Good77
Requires improvement11
Outstanding10
No overall grade85
98 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 85 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Liverpool
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blue Coat SchoolAcademy converter | Liverpool | Good 2022 | 79.5 |
| Liverpool CollegeAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | No grade | 55.1 |
| King David High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Liverpool | Good 2022 | 54.3 |
| The Belvedere AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | No grade | 53.8 |
| St Hilda's Church of England High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Liverpool | No grade | 51.8 |
| St Edward's CollegeAcademy converter | Liverpool | No grade | 51.6 |
| St Margaret's Church of England AcademyAcademy converter | Liverpool | Good 2024 | 49.6 |
| Bellerive FCJ Catholic CollegeAcademy converter | Liverpool | No grade | 47.3 |
| Holly Lodge Girls' CollegeCommunity school | Liverpool | No grade | 47.2 |
| St Julie's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Liverpool | Good 2023 | 46.9 |
| Liverpool Life Sciences UTCUniversity technical college | Liverpool | No grade | 46.3 |
| Calderstones SchoolCommunity school | Liverpool | Good 2023 | 46.1 |
| North Liverpool AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | No grade | 45.6 |
| West Derby SchoolAcademy converter | Liverpool | Good 2023 | 42 |
| Archbishop Beck Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school | Liverpool | No grade | 41.5 |
| Cardinal Heenan Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Liverpool | No grade | 40.9 |
| St John Bosco Arts CollegeVoluntary aided school | Croxteth | No grade | 39.4 |
| The Studio School LiverpoolStudio schools | Liverpool | Good 2024 | 39.4 |
| Broughton Hall Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Liverpool | Good 2022 | 39.2 |
| St Francis Xavier's Catholic AcademyAcademy converter | Liverpool | Requires improvement 2021 | 36.7 |
| Childwall Sports & Science AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | Good 2022 | 36.2 |
| The Academy of St Francis of AssisiAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | Requires improvement 2024 | 35.8 |
| King's Leadership Academy, LiverpoolAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | Good 2023 | 34.5 |
| Dixons Broadgreen AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | No grade | 34.4 |
| Dixons Fazakerley AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | Requires improvement 2024 | 33.4 |
| Dixons Croxteth AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | No grade | 31.6 |
| Notre Dame Catholic AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | Requires improvement 2022 | 31 |
| The Academy of St NicholasAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | Good 2022 | 29.4 |
| Alsop High SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | No grade | 28.2 |
| LIPA SchoolFree schools | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| King's Leadership Academy WavertreeFree schools | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Gateacre SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Liverpool | Requires improvement 2023 | — |
| Archbishop Blanch CofE High SchoolAcademy converter | Liverpool | No grade | — |