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All Saints Catholic High School

Secondary · Knowsley · L33 8XF

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 16 November 2021

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At a glance

1,129 pupils · 102% of 1,112 capacity (over capacity)

School type
Voluntary aided school
Age range
11–18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
47% of pupils
English as additional language
6.1% of pupils
SEN support
12.8% of pupils
EHC plan
3.9% of pupils
Sixth form
Yes
Website
http://allsaintschs.org.uk
URN
135479

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

1.34 first-choice applications per place

201 places offered · 269 first-choice applications · oversubscribed

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

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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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

GCSE results (2024/2025)

194 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025

Attainment 8 score
40.6
England 46.1
Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs
54.6%
England 64.8%
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs
33.5%
England 45.4%
EBacc average point score
3.2
England 4.1

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)

A-level points per entry (England: 35 ≈ B-) SUPP

suppressed (small cohort)

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Attainment 8, 2024/2025

This school40.6
Median of its 12 closest peers40.5
Knowsley average36.5
England46.1

On attainment 8, this school is in line with the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Lord Derby AcademyLiverpool · 5 miles awayGood39.9
The Marvell CollegeHull · 109 miles awayGood40.6
Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise AcademyIlkeston · 74 miles awayGood40.5
The James Hornsby SchoolBasildon · 192 miles awayNeeds attention38.9
North Durham AcademyStanley · 107 miles awayGood39.8
St John Bosco Arts CollegeCroxteth · 3 miles awayNeeds attention39.4
Ormiston SWB AcademyBilston · 72 miles awayExpected standard42
Broughton Hall Catholic High SchoolLiverpool · 4 miles awayGood39.2
The Blyth AcademyBlyth · 125 miles awayGood49.2
Outwood Academy HemsworthPontefract · 64 miles awayGood41
Netherthorpe SchoolChesterfield · 65 miles awaySerious weaknesses42.1
Castle View Enterprise AcademySunderland · 115 miles awayGood41.9

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). 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 plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
8.1%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
23.4%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
13.2
England 18.5

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

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£10,696
Typical secondary school£7,798

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Where pupils go after GCSEs

In sustained education, work or training
84%
Continuing in education
69%
Apprenticeship
11%
Employment
4%

Where students go after sixth form

To university / higher education
28%
Apprenticeship
15%
Employment
35%
Any sustained destination
83%

Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

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

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher23.6%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications28.8%18.1%
In managerial or professional work22.5%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways28.5%18.1%
Residents in very good health49.5%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier52.4%62.3%
Social housing35.7%17.1%
Privately rented11.1%20.5%
Detached houses27.9%22.9%
Flats0.8%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms25.8%21.1%
Households with no car or van31.9%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01006495 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,716 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£165,000220 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£127,000–£210,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (36)£258,000
Semi-detached (113)£170,000
Terraced (69)£130,000

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): 66 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.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. 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 5.8
All reported collisions
35an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
7an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. 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, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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