Gateacre School
Secondary · Liverpool · L25 2RW
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.
Inspected 5 December 2023
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1,196 pupils · 85% of 1,400 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 41.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 7.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.9% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- URN
- 150956
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.55 first-choice applications per place216 places offered · 119 first-choice applications · usually has places
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)
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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.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
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
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy 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.