Chesterfield High School
Ofsted: Good
Score
C58
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Liverpool, L23 9YB
- Distance
- 1.3km away
Sacred Heart Catholic Academy
Liverpool Road, Crosby, Liverpool, L23 5TF
Local ranking16th of 18 secondary schools in Sefton
Ofsted: Requires improvementUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1354
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · 2025 A-levels · Ofsted inspection 15 October 2024. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Sacred Heart Catholic College (URN 104961) since 1 May 2022. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 15 October 2024 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
- Sixth form provision
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 44.9 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 49.6% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 70.7% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 133
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 91.0%
- Continued in education
- 89.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 2.0%
- Employment
- 0.0%
- Not sustained
- 5.0%
After A-Levels 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 91.0%
- Higher education
- 52.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 4.0%
- Employment
- 29.0%
- Not sustained
- 7.0%
A-Level Results
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
C-
Avg A-Level Grade
25.0
Avg Points/Entry
nat 35.0
8
A-Level Students
- Applied General Avg Points
- 23.3
- 16-18 Cohort
- 19
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 653
- Boys
- 297 (48%)
- Girls
- 316 (52%)
- Capacity
- 1354 (45% full)
- SEND
- 15.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 33.1%
- EAL
- 8.1%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.5%
- SEN Support
- 13.9%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 18.0:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 36.5
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,036/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
- 13.2% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 35.8% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 85.7%
- White Other: 2.9%
- Black African: 2.5%
- Other: 2.0%
- Mixed Other: 1.7%
- Asian Other: 1.5%
- Asian Chinese: 0.8%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.6%
85.7%
White British
2.9%
White Other
2.5%
Black African
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Liverpool Road
Liverpool, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 149047
- UKPRN
- 10090328
- Establishment No.
- 4009
- Trust
- POPE FRANCIS CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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