North West
Special 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.
Special 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acre View Primary SchoolOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Crosby High SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Educ8 LiverpoolOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Educ8 SouthportOther independent special school | Southport | No grade | — |
| Foundations for LIFE SchoolOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| Newfield SchoolCommunity special school | Liverpool | Good 2023 | — |
| Olsen House SchoolOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| PANDA SchoolsOther independent special school | Bootle | No grade | — |
| Peterhouse SchoolNon-maintained special school | Southport | No grade | — |
| Presfield High School and Specialist CollegeCommunity special school | Southport | Good 2023 | — |
| SENDSCOPEOther independent special school | Liverpool | No grade | — |
| The Motiv8 SchoolOther independent special school | Sefton | No grade | — |