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Secondary school in Knowsley

All Saints Catholic High School

Roughwood Drive, Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside, L33 8XF

Ofsted Good · 2021 Sixth form Roman Catholic Full
School website 01514778740

Ofsted

Goodas at 16 November 2021

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 16 November 2021.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

40.6 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

34% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

55% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

11% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.36confidence interval -0.55 to -0.16

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1129
Places
1112
How full
Full — 1129 pupils against 1112 places
Girls / boys
532 / 597
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
23%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
51%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
6%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
84%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
69%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
11%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
19%
No sustained destination
9%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
205

After sixth form

Went to university
28%

England 50%

In education, work or training
83%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
15%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
54

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

0% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
33%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
18

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Knowsley 001E, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
24%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
29%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
52%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
36%

England 17%

Households with no car
32%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Tony McGuinness
Local authority
Knowsley
Ward
Northwood
Constituency
Knowsley
URN
135479

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Kirkby High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 31.4 0.9 mi
Dixons Fazakerley AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 33.4 2.1 mi
St John Bosco Arts CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 39.4 2.6 mi
Maricourt Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 44.5 2.8 mi
Dixons Croxteth AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 31.6 2.8 mi
Deyes High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 42.8 3.1 mi
Maghull High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 39.6 3.2 mi
Archbishop Beck Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 41.5 3.3 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Morpeth SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 49.2
Selly Park Girls' SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 52.4
Joseph Leckie AcademyAcademy converter No grade 42.4
Moreton SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 39.3
Royal Docks AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 39.6
Weston Secondary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 31.1
Netherhall Learning Campus High SchoolCommunity school Requires improvement 2024 41
North East Futures UTCUniversity technical college No grade 35.4

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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