All-through school in Liverpool
LIPA School
Upper Duke Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 7BT
Ofsted
Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 5 June 2025.
This inspection did not give an overall grade. Read the report for Ofsted's findings; it cannot be compared as a single score with a historic grade.
- Current published outcome
- Report card — no overall grade
- Last overall grade in this dataset
- Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
- Days since inspection
- 484 days
- Framework era
- Current framework (no overall grade)
These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.
key stage 4 results 2024/25
Not published for this URN in the current phase-appropriate school performance release.
- Evidence found
- No publishable key stage 4 headline attainment value for this exact URN.
- Source coverage
- DfE school-level 2024/25 performance files, joined by URN. Suppressed, not applicable and not published cells remain distinct from zero.
- What this means
- School Facts has no official phase-compatible attainment figure to display for this establishment and year.
- What this does not mean
- The school had no pupils, achieved 0%, performed poorly, or lacks results outside this release.
Pupils
- Pupils on roll
- 499
- Places
- 572
- How full
- 87% full — 499 of 572 places taken
- Girls / boys
- 266 / 233
- Overall absence
- 11%
- Persistently absent
- 36%
secondary schools average 8.6%
secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions
- Free school meals, last 6 years
- 35%
- English as an additional language
- 31%
- With an EHC plan
- 7%
- On SEN support
- 16%
England 25.7%
England 18.7%
England 3.5%
England 15%
School funding 2025-26 financial year
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.
- Evidence found
- Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
- Source coverage
- DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
- What this means
- The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
- What this does not mean
- The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.
Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.
Roads and getting there
Road casualties within 500m
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 8
- All reported collisions
- 160
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 32
- Busiest road nearby
- A562
England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years
England average 24.2 over five years
19,535 vehicles a day (2005)
Public transport
- Bus stops within 500m
- 28
- Nearest station
- Liverpool Central Rail Station
England average 11.9
0.7 km away — railway station
Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.
Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.
The area around the school
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £286,800
- Typical range
- £165,625 to £386,250
- Flat
- £277,500
postcode sector L1 7 · 8 sales
middle half of sales
Homes around this school are close to the England average.
Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.
Who lives there
- Adults with a degree
- 35%
- Adults with no qualifications
- 5%
- In professional or managerial work
- 6%
- Households deprived in 2+ ways
- 13%
- Residents in very good health
- 55%
England 33.8%
England 18.3%
England 13.4%
England 17.8%
England 48.4%
Housing
- Owned by the occupier
- 17%
- Social housing
- 8%
- Privately rented
- 69%
- Detached homes
- 2%
- Four or more bedrooms
- 7%
- No car
- 56%
England 62.7%
England 17%
England 19.2%
England 38.2%
England 22.5%
England 21.9%
Census 2021, for Liverpool 060G and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.
School details
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- Ages 4–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- None
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery
- No
- Boarding
- Day school
- Headteacher
- Head Teacher: Claire McKendrick
- Opened as this establishment
- 1 September 2014
- Register status
- Open
- Local authority
- Liverpool
- Ward
- City Centre South
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside
- URN
- 141103
The unique reference number used in all official school data.
The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.
Admissions history
The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.
Year 7
All 4 annual observations
| Entry year | Places | First choices | Per place | First choices offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 51 | 71 | 1.39 | 59% |
| 2023/24 | 60 | 81 | 1.35 | 49% |
| 2024/25 | 51 | 81 | 1.59 | 51% |
| 2025/26 | 56 | 65 | 1.16 | 52% |
Reception
All 11 annual observations
| Entry year | Places | First choices | Per place | First choices offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015/16 | 52 | 47 | 0.90 | 92% |
| 2016/17 | 52 | 61 | 1.17 | 67% |
| 2017/18 | 52 | 63 | 1.21 | 65% |
| 2018/19 | 52 | 69 | 1.33 | 67% |
| 2019/20 | 52 | 57 | 1.10 | 74% |
| 2020/21 | 52 | 68 | 1.31 | 69% |
| 2021/22 | 52 | 54 | 1.04 | 82% |
| 2022/23 | 52 | 70 | 1.35 | 69% |
| 2023/24 | 52 | 76 | 1.46 | 59% |
| 2024/25 | 56 | 54 | 0.96 | 89% |
| 2025/26 | 51 | 45 | 0.88 | 100% |
These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.
Nearest all-through schools
| School | Ofsted | Attainment 8 | Progress 8 | Distance | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool Life Sciences UTCUniversity technical college | No overall grade | 46.3 | -0.34-0.59 to -0.09 | 0.3 mi | |
| The Studio School LiverpoolStudio schools | Good 2024 | 39.4 | -0.82-1.13 to -0.52 | 0.3 mi | |
| Progress Schools - LiverpoolOther independent school | No overall grade | — | — | 0.6 mi | |
| Nazene Danielle School of Performing ArtsOther independent school | No overall grade | — | — | 0.9 mi | |
| Christian Fellowship SchoolOther independent school | No overall grade | — | — | 0.9 mi | |
| The Belvedere AcademyAcademy sponsor led | No overall grade | 53.8 | 0.17-0.05 to 0.40 · not a win | 1.2 mi | |
| Archbishop Blanch CofE High SchoolAcademy converter | No overall grade | — | — | 1.3 mi | |
| Bellerive FCJ Catholic CollegeAcademy converter | Report card 2026 | 47.3 | -0.37-0.60 to -0.13 | 1.4 mi |
Schools like this
The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 | Progress 8 | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Middlecott AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Boston | No overall grade | 32.1 | -0.78-1.06 to -0.49 | |
| Birchensale Middle SchoolAcademy converter | Redditch | No overall grade | — | — | |
| Bohunt FarnboroughAcademy sponsor led | Farnborough | Inadequate 2022 | 38.7 | — | |
| Global AcademyUniversity technical college | Middlesex | No overall grade | 30.8 | -1.90-2.24 to -1.56 | |
| Coleridge Community CollegeAcademy converter | Cambridge | No overall grade | 55.1 | 0.23-0.04 to 0.51 · not a win | |
| Dixons Trinity AcademyFree schools | Bradford | No overall grade | 51.4 | 0.720.45 to 0.99 | |
| Dedworth Middle SchoolAcademy converter | Windsor | Good 2022 | — | — | |
| St Peter and St Paul, Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter | Lincoln | Requires improvement 2024 | 37.7 | -0.58-0.86 to -0.30 | |
| Trumpington Community CollegeAcademy converter | Cambridge | Good 2023 | 50.4 | 0.610.27 to 0.96 | |
| Woodfield AcademyAcademy converter | Redditch | No overall grade | — | — | |
| Wheelers Lane Technology CollegeCommunity school | Birmingham | No overall grade | 48.4 | 0.19-0.06 to 0.44 · not a win | |
| The Pedmore High SchoolAcademy converter | Stourbridge | Good 2023 | 39.6 | -0.36-0.62 to -0.10 |
Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.
Evidence ledger
Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.
| Evidence | Publisher | Reference date | How it reaches this page |
|---|---|---|---|
| School identity | Get Information About Schools | 23 August 2026 | Exact URN 141103; unified importer snapshot |
| Inspection evidence | Ofsted management information | 31 July 2026 | Exact URN; inspection 5 June 2025 |
| Attainment | DfE performance tables | 2024/25 | Exact URN; phase-specific definitions |
| Pupil intake | DfE school census | 2024/25 | Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing |
| Funding allocation | DfE school funding statistics | 2025-26 financial year | No row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero |
| Roads and transport | DfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTAN | Five-year road window; access-node snapshot | Coordinate join within the stated radius |
| Neighbourhood | ONS Census | 2021 | LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes |
| Home prices | HM Land Registry Price Paid Data | Sales since January 2024 | School postcode sector, not a catchment |
These sources are published for reuse under the Open Government Licence v3.0, including the Crown database-right notice that accompanies Price Paid Data. Definitions and source notes. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.