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Girls secondary school in Liverpool

Holly Lodge Girls' College

140 Mill Lane, West Derby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 7LE

Sixth form Girls
School website 01512283772

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 8 October 2024.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

47.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

45% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

68% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

65% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle 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 top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.04confidence interval -0.26 to 0.18

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C
Average points per entry
28.7

England average 32.3

A level students
31

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1016
Places
1529
How full
66% full — 1016 of 1529 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
1015 / 1
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
29%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
54%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
26%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
19%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
88%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
83%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
50%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
151

After sixth form

Went to university
69%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
49

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

7% 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
58%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
43

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 Liverpool 021A, 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
33%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
22%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
71%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
10%

England 17%

Households with no car
24%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
38%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Andrew Keen
Local authority
Liverpool
Ward
Sandfield Park
Constituency
Liverpool West Derby
URN
104688

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
West Derby SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 42 0.3 mi
St Edward's CollegeAcademy converter No grade 51.6 0.4 mi
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 40.9 1.2 mi
The Academy of St Francis of AssisiAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 35.8 1.3 mi
Broughton Hall Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 39.2 1.3 mi
Dixons Broadgreen AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 34.4 1.3 mi
Dixons Croxteth AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 31.6 1.4 mi
St John Bosco Arts CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 39.4 1.6 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
Temple Learning AcademyFree schools No grade 33.7
City of London Academy, Highgate HillFree schools Good 2024 40.3
The Salesian Academy of St John BoscoAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.2
Gloucester AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 36.6
North Huddersfield Trust SchoolFoundation school Good 2022 35.7
Washwood Heath AcademyAcademy converter No grade 42.9
Saracens High SchoolFree schools Good 2022 47.1
Whalley Range 11-18 High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 52.1

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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