North West
Special 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.
Special schools in Liverpool
Sorted by name. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbot's Lea SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | Outstanding 2024 | — |
| Bank View High SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Birtenshaw School MerseysideOther independent special school | Merseyside | No grade | — |
| Cavendish View SchoolOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Childwall Abbey SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | Good 2024 | — |
| Clifford Holroyde Sen CollegeCommunity special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Hazel Cottage SchoolOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Hope SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Lakeside SchoolOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Liverpool Progressive SchoolOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Millstead SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | Outstanding 2024 | — |
| Palmerston SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Princes SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | Outstanding 2023 | — |
| Redbridge High SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Royal School for the Blind (Liverpool)Non-maintained special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Sandfield Park SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | Outstanding 2024 | — |
| St Vincent's School - A Specialist School for Sensory Impairment and Other NeedsNon-maintained special school | Liverpool | Requires improvement 2024 | — |
| Woolton High SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | Good 2024 | — |