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Secondary school in Liverpool

St Edward's College

Sandfield Park, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 1LF

Sixth form Roman Catholic Full
School website 01512811999

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 3 December 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

51.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

62% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

82% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

58% 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

-0.20confidence interval -0.41 to 0.01

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
33.2

England average 32.3

A level students
120

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1150
Places
1028
How full
Full — 1150 pupils against 1028 places
Girls / boys
547 / 603
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
15%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
19%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
11%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
90%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
63%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
166

After sixth form

Went to university
63%

England 50%

In education, work or training
87%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
163

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

41% 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
83%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
126

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 021D, 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
36%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
19%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
85%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
4%

England 17%

Households with no car
15%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
42%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE LAETARE CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Principal: Lee Fabia
Local authority
Liverpool
Ward
Sandfield Park
Constituency
Liverpool West Derby
URN
136735

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Holly Lodge Girls' CollegeCommunity school No grade 47.2 0.4 mi
West Derby SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 42 0.5 mi
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 40.9 0.8 mi
Broughton Hall Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 39.2 1 mi
Dixons Broadgreen AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 34.4 1 mi
NexGen AcademyOther independent school No grade 1.5 mi
The Academy of St Francis of AssisiAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 35.8 1.5 mi
Dixons Croxteth AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 31.6 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
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 54.2
William de Ferrers SchoolAcademy converter No grade 44.1
Studley High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 45.9
Farlingaye High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 43.8
Mounts Bay AcademyAcademy converter No grade 43.7
Sir William Romney's SchoolAcademy converter No grade 44.1
Nunnery Wood High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 49.7
Stanborough SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47.9

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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