Holly Lodge Girls' College

Community school·Secondary school Liverpool·L12 7LE
Composite score
59.0
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#1,318
National rank
#157
In North West
#10
In Liverpool
Top 42%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
47.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
45%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
68%
% EBacc grade 5+
31%
EBacc average points score
4.32

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
92%
165 first choices, 218 places
First choices per place
0.76
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
468
any preference, for 218 places
Applications from another council area
7%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
0.5420220.5320230.5720240.6320250.762026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Liverpool does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Year 7 place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Holly Lodge Girls' College. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,000
Gender
Girls
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
54.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
25.5%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.2%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
29.1%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.9
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,666
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
88%
151 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
83%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Holly Lodge Girls' College at a glance

Located in Liverpool, Holly Lodge Girls' College is a girls' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 1,000 pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 47.2, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 2.8 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 42% of secondary schools nationally.

45% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 68% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 92% of the families who made Holly Lodge Girls' College their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 88% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.8%. There are about 15.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 54% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Holly Lodge Girls' College does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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