Alsop High School
Ofsted: Urgent improvement
Score
F17
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Liverpool, L4 6SH
- Distance
- 0.8km away
Hillside High School
Breeze Hill, Bootle, L20 9NU
Local ranking9th of 18 secondary schools in Sefton
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
921
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 19 September 2023. Figures last updated .
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 39.1 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 39.5% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 58.8% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 119
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 80.0%
- Continued in education
- 79.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 1.0%
- Employment
- 0.0%
- Not sustained
- 13.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 741
- Boys
- 364 (46%)
- Girls
- 421 (54%)
- Capacity
- 921 (85% full)
- SEND
- 29.0%
- FSM Eligible
- 54.7%
- EAL
- 17.5%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 4.6%
- SEN Support
- 24.4%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 17.0:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 43.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,808/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 10.6% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 31.4% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- Not applicable
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 74.7%
- Black African: 7.5%
- White Other: 6.4%
- Other: 2.5%
- Asian Other: 2.0%
- Mixed Other: 1.9%
- Black Other: 1.2%
- Mixed White & Black African: 1.1%
74.7%
White British
7.5%
Black African
6.4%
White Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Administrative
- URN
- 141693
- UKPRN
- 10048637
- Establishment No.
- 4002
- Trust
- WADE DEACON TRUST
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