Where are the latest Sefton GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Sefton are on the main Sefton GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. No Progress 8 exists for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Sefton show no 2025 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2025 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Sefton GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Q: Which school had the best GCSE results in Sefton in 2025?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Formby High School topped the table in Sefton with 54.3, against an England average of 46.1. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

17 state secondary schools in Sefton ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 2 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2025 archive of the table. See the latest Sefton GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 18 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Sefton ranked on Attainment 8

17 of 18 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Sefton ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.1	45%	65%	4.09	–
1	Formby High School Liverpool · Academy converter	54.3	66%	79%	4.53	187
2	Birkdale High School Southport · Academy converter	51.9	57%	74%	4.90	176
3	Greenbank High School Southport · Academy converter	50.6	51%	70%	4.69	208
4	Chesterfield High School Liverpool · Academy converter	48.4	53%	75%	4.27	257
5 , up 2 places since 2024	Holy Family Catholic High School Liverpool · Voluntary aided school	44.8	44%	63%	3.70	172
6 , up 4 places since 2024	Meols Cop High School Southport · Academy converter	44.7	36%	60%	3.82	173
7 , up 1 place since 2024	Maricourt Catholic High School Liverpool · Voluntary aided school	44.5	44%	65%	3.57	199
8 , down 3 places since 2024	Range High School Liverpool · Academy converter	44.2	39%	64%	3.84	174
9 , down 3 places since 2024	Deyes High School Liverpool · Academy converter	42.8	36%	60%	3.66	217
10 , up 3 places since 2024	Sacred Heart Catholic Academy Liverpool · Academy sponsor led	42.4	38%	58%	3.53	170
11 , down 2 places since 2024	Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre Southport · Voluntary aided school	41.8	37%	58%	3.51	113
12 , up 2 places since 2024	Litherland High School Liverpool · Academy sponsor led	41.7	37%	60%	3.34	134
13 , down 2 places since 2024	Stanley High School Southport · Academy sponsor led	40.6	31%	53%	3.66	176
14 , up 1 place since 2024	Hillside High School Bootle · Academy sponsor led	39.8	35%	52%	3.62	130
15 , down 3 places since 2024	Maghull High School Liverpool · Academy converter	39.6	30%	57%	3.39	203
16=	King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes Bootle · Free schools	32.2	17%	35%	2.94	106
16= , up 1 place since 2024	The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco Bootle · Academy sponsor led	32.2	19%	33%	2.55	75
–	St Michaels Church of England Academy Crosby · Academy sponsor led · No published GCSE results for 2025	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Under each rank: the change since the 2024 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2024 result.

Independent schools in Sefton with published 2025 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
Merchant Taylors' Schools Liverpool · Other independent school	21.4	0%	125
St. Mary's College Liverpool · Other independent school	63.3	77%	86

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school; the England average for 2025 was 46.1.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 is not shown: the DfE published no Progress 8 for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020, the baseline it is measured from. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so a selective school will usually top an attainment-only table.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2025 archive of the table: each school's 2025 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2025 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Sefton GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Sefton on our composite score

Sefton GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Sefton ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Sefton with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Sefton

Sefton GCSE results: common questions