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All-through school in Liverpool

Liverpool College

Queen's Drive, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, L18 8BG

Sixth form Church of England Full
School website 01517244000

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 18 June 2025.

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

55.1 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

66% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

81% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

59% England 40.8%

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

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.29confidence interval 0.05 to 0.52

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as above 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
B-
Average points per entry
38.3

England average 32.3

A level students
119

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1685
Places
1100
How full
Full — 1685 pupils against 1100 places
Girls / boys
739 / 946
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
9%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
18%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
13%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
6%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
96%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
94%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
74%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
144

After sixth form

Went to university
67%

England 50%

In education, work or training
93%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
126

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

35% 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
91%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
116

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 048E, 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
35%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
27%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
17%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
60%

England 17%

Households with no car
50%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
57%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 4–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Boarding school
Trust
LIVERPOOL COLLEGE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL TRUST
Headteacher
Executive Headteacher: Alison Haynes
Local authority
Liverpool
Ward
Greenbank Park
Constituency
Liverpool Wavertree
URN
139686

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
St Hilda's Church of England High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 51.8 0.8 mi
The Blue Coat SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 79.5 0.8 mi
St Margaret's Church of England AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 49.6 0.9 mi
Calderstones SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 46.1 0.9 mi
Auckland CollegeOther independent school No grade 1 mi
Bellerive FCJ Catholic CollegeAcademy converter No grade 47.3 1 mi
King David High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 54.3 1.4 mi
The Belvedere AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 53.8 1.4 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through 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
Redruth SchoolFoundation school No grade 45.7
Claverham Community CollegeCommunity school Good 2024 50.3
Exmouth Community CollegeAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 46.1
West London Free SchoolFree schools Good 2022 69.2
Hummersknott AcademyAcademy converter No grade 47.8
South Wigston High SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 34.5
The Cherwell SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 58.3
Abbeyfield SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 44

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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