Royal School for the Blind (Liverpool)Palmerston School

Inspection, results, pupils and attendance side by side in Liverpool.

Summary of the comparison

This page compares Royal School for the Blind (Liverpool) and Palmerston School in Liverpool.

Neither school has a composite score. Our score needs published attainment data, which is not available for every school or every nation.
Royal School for the Blind (Liverpool) was judged strong and Palmerston School was judged Outstanding.

Royal School for the Blind (Liverpool) versus Palmerston School compared on inspection, results, pupils and attendance.
Measure	LiverpoolRoyal School for the Blind (Liverpool)	LiverpoolPalmerston School	England average
Overview
Our score	Not scored	Not scored
Local ranking	Not ranked	Not ranked
Inspection	Ofsted: Strong	Ofsted: OutstandingStronger figure
School type	Non-maintained special school	Community special school
Age range	2-19	11-19
Gender	Mixed	Mixed
Pupils on roll	80	184
Capacity	90	175
Location	Liverpool, L15 6TQ	Liverpool, L17 6AU
GCSE results
Cohort	3	19
Pupils
Pupils in the census	85	174
Free school meals (ever 6)	38.2%	58.3%
English as an additional language	3.5%	31.0%
SEN support	14.1%	0.0%
SEN with an EHC plan	85.9%	100.0%
Attendance
Overall absence	16.4%	10.7% Stronger figure	6.2%
Persistent absence	49.3%	30.6% Stronger figure	15.8%

marks the stronger figure on measures with a clear direction. Rows describing a school's intake, such as free school meals, English as an additional language and SEN, carry no marker: they describe who a school serves, not how well it serves them.

Historical trends

Each solid line is one school; the dashed line is the national average.

Overall absence

Free school meal eligibility (ever 6)

Pupils on roll

Ethnicity over time

One panel per school: the largest groups across this comparison, one colour per group, on a shared scale.