Alsop High School

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Liverpool·L4 6SH
Composite score
35.2
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#3,173
National rank
#442
In North West
#30
In Liverpool
Top 100%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
28.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
12%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
27%
% EBacc grade 5+
4%
EBacc average points score
2.40

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 10/02/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Urgent improvement
Leadership and governance
Needs attention
Curriculum and teaching
Urgent improvement
Attendance and behaviour
Urgent improvement
Personal development and wellbeing
Needs attention
Inclusion
Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards
Met
Post-16 provision
Urgent improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
113 first choices, 263 places
First choices per place
0.43
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
322
any preference, for 263 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.5620220.4720230.4520240.4920250.432026

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

Every child who put Alsop High School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,442
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
57.7%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
21.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
19.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
54.8%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.4
Typical secondary: 16.7

“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
82%
256 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
77%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Alsop High School

Alsop High School is a secondary school in Liverpool, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. Around 1,442 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted (February 2026). In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 28.2, well below the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 1.6 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 lower half of secondary schools nationally.

12% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 27% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Alsop High School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 113 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 82% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 19.4%. There are about 15.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 58% 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. If you are considering Alsop High School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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