SchoolFacts

Alsop High School

Secondary · Liverpool · L4 6SH

⇄ Compare with another school
Urgent improvement

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Urgent improvementAchievement: Urgent improvementAttendance & behaviour: Urgent improvementPersonal development: Needs attentionInclusion: Urgent improvementLeadership & governance: Needs attentionEarly years: Not applicablePost-16: Urgent improvement

Inspected 10 February 2026 · report published 21 April 2026

Read the Ofsted report ↗

At a glance

1,336 pupils · 74% of 1,800 capacity

School type
Academy sponsor led
Age range
11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
57.8% of pupils
English as additional language
21.6% of pupils
SEN support
21.3% of pupils
EHC plan
3.7% of pupils
Sixth form
Yes
Website
www.alsophigh.org.uk
URN
148226

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

0.43 first-choice applications per place

263 places offered · 113 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

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.

GCSE results (2024/2025)

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

Attainment 8 score
28.2
England 46.1
Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs
27.4%
England 64.8%
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs
11.9%
England 45.4%
EBacc average point score
2.4
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-) D+
22.6
England 35

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

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
13%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
32.4%
England 18.1%

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

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
15.4
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

83% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 11% 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.

Where pupils go after GCSEs

In sustained education, work or training
82%
Continuing in education
77%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
4%

Where students go after sixth form

To university / higher education
40%
Apprenticeship
8%
Employment
24%
Any sustained destination
77%

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.

Nearby schools