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Boys secondary school in Wallasey, Wirral

The Mosslands School

Mosslands Drive, Wallasey, Merseyside, CH45 8PJ

Ofsted Requires improvement · 2024 Sixth form Boys
School website 01516388131

Ofsted

Requires improvementas at 28 February 2024

Graded Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 28 February 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

35.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

20% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

42% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

9% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% 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 bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.83confidence interval -1.04 to -0.63

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

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
D
Average points per entry
19.2

England average 32.3

A level students
24

Pupils

Pupils on roll
848
Places
1573
How full
54% full — 848 of 1573 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
2 / 846
Overall absence
12%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
33%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
42%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
21%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
87%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
82%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
34%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
212

After sixth form

Went to university
17%

England 50%

In education, work or training
66%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
7%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
70

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

2% 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
44%

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 Wirral 003C, 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
30%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
16%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
74%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
13%

England 17%

Households with no car
20%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Adrian Whiteley
Local authority
Wirral
Ward
Wallasey
Constituency
Wallasey
URN
105103

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
St Mary's Catholic College, A Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 33.2 0.4 mi
Weatherhead High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 41.9 0.5 mi
The Oldershaw SchoolAcademy converter No grade 28 0.7 mi
St Anselm's CollegeAcademy converter No grade 57.2 2.1 mi
Birkenhead Park SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2023 39.9 2.2 mi
Birkenhead High School AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 50.5 2.2 mi
Birkenhead SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.4 mi
Progress Schools - WirralOther independent school No grade 2.4 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
Mortimer Community CollegeCommunity school No grade 41.9
Dixons Ashton AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.1
Chantry AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 33.9
Ormiston Shelfield Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 38.4
Westminster City SchoolAcademy converter No grade 52.1
The Boulevard AcademyFree schools No grade 39.6
Blaise High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 45
AIM Academy North LondonAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 35.3

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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