The Belvedere Academy

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Liverpool·L8 3TF
Composite score
67.2
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National rank
#53
In North West
#5
In Liverpool
Top 18%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
53.8
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
60%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
79%
% EBacc grade 5+
30%
EBacc average points score
4.78

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
48%
345 first choices, 188 places
First choices per place
1.83
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
829
any preference, for 188 places
Applications from another council area
7%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.17
00.511.522.5
1 per place
1.5920221.9320231.9220241.6620251.832026

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 The Belvedere Academy. 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
11–19
Pupils on roll
1,128
Gender
Girls
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
31.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
22.7%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
19.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,102
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
95%
130 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
92%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

The Belvedere Academy at a glance

Located in Liverpool, The Belvedere Academy is a girls' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 1,128 pupils aged 11 to 19. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 53.8, above the national average of 46. That is down 3.3 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 18% of secondary schools in England.

60% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 79% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 48% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (345 first choices for 188 places). After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 15.7 pupils per teacher. The Belvedere Academy 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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