All Saints Catholic High School
Secondary · Knowsley · L33 8XF
Data updated
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 14 April 2026 · report published 7 September 2026
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1,129 pupils · 102% of 1,112 capacity (over capacity) (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 47% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 6.1% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 12.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 3.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Website
- http://allsaintschs.org.uk
- URN
- 135479
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 269 families named it first for 201 Year 7 places, 1.34 first choices per place. Its last Year 7 place offered on distance for 2020 entry went to 0.359 miles; distance decided places in 1 of the 5 years of Year 7 rounds we hold, 2020 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 14 April 2026, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Needs attention. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 8.1% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.34 first-choice applications per place201 places offered · 269 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Places by distance, last offered at 0.359 miles for 2020 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2020 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 0.359 miles
measured in a straight line.
Cutoff by admission criterion (2026 entry)
- Criterion 6 (Children attending a Catholic partnership primary school)
- 0.275 miles
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
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GCSE results (2024/2025)
194 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
A-level results (2024/2025)
suppressed (small cohort)
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Schools with a similar intake
Attainment 8, 2024/2025
On attainment 8, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.
They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 89% (Knowsley 86%, England 59%) · Any other White background 4% (Knowsley 3%, England 7%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (Knowsley 2%, England 3%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Knowsley 2%, England 3%) · Any other Black background 1% (Knowsley 1%, England 1%) · Black African 1% (Knowsley 2%, England 5%) · other groups together 2%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
13.78 suspensions per 100 pupils and 1 permanent exclusion · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Knowsley: 28.55 suspensions and 0.40 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
94% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% moved to another state school · 4% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained secondaries: 0.22% vacant, 0.42% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
65.6% of teachers took sickness absence, 8 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £48,990; 10.7% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
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Spending per pupil (2025-26)
Where the money went (2025-26)
Share of spending, with the median for secondary schools in brackets: Staff 71% (77%) · premises 14% (6%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 3% (7%) · supplies and services 25% (10%) · educational supplies 11% (6%) · bought-in professional services 1% (2%) · catering 0% (3%)
Reserves (2025-26)
Revenue reserve £62,730; in-year balance -£935,194
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Where pupils go after GCSEs
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.
Inspection history since 2015
- 14 April 2026: Needs attention
- 16 November 2021: Good
- 5 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 14 May 2019: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 17 April 2018: Requires improvement
- 28 June 2016: Requires improvement
- 2 March 2016: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 9 December 2015: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 23.6% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 28.8% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 22.5% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 28.5% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 49.5% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 52.4% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 35.7% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 11.1% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 27.9% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 0.8% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 25.8% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 31.9% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01006495 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £165,000235 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £128,000–£210,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Year 7 cutoff distance (0.58 km, 2020 entry): 70 sales, median £150,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 7an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 6an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 35an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 7an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted
Nearby schools
- Northwood Community Primary School (With Designated Special Provision)
- Kirkby CofE Primary School
- St Marie's Catholic Primary School
- Millbrook Community Primary School
- St Laurence's Catholic Primary School
- Eastcroft Park School
- Ravenscroft Community Primary School
- St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School