North West
Independent schools in Sefton
111 schools, 41,261 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 36.9.
Ofsted across Sefton
Good69
Outstanding5
Requires improvement2
Inadequate1
No overall grade34
77 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 34 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Independent schools in Sefton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merchant Taylors' SchoolsOther independent school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| St. Mary's CollegeOther independent school | Liverpool | No grade | — |