All Saints Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,129 pupils
69% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.6
Community special school
Alt Bridge School
- Pupils on roll
- 356of 230 places
- Free school meals
- 66.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 53
- Ofsted
- Good, 11 October 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 38 pupils who finished Year 11 at Alt Bridge School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Alt Bridge School’s own sixth form (Knowsley average 6%), 24% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
13% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Alt Bridge School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 3.8, 4% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Knowsley and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Alt Bridge School | Knowsley | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 38 | 1,132 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 79% | 82% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 79% | 73% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 6% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 13% | 13% |
| — further education college | 24% | 50% | 37% |
| — other education | 55% | 5% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 6% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 13% | 12% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 8% | 6% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Alt Bridge School | Knowsley | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 3.8 | 34.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 4% | 25% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 6% | 44% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 29% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.17 | 2.89 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 72% | 52% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 2.7 | 29.0 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 6.4 | 40.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 2% | 5% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 18 | 34% | 89% | 6% | 20% | 22% |
| Mathematics | 12 | 23% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 42% |
| Fine Art | 9 | 17% | 9% | 0% | 28% | 33% |
| English Literature | 2 | 4% | 86% | — | 21% | — |
Where Alt Bridge School is
Other secondary schools in Knowsley are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Knowsley’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Knowsley
Halewood Academy
Academy converter · 1,131 pupils
76% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.6
Kirkby High School
Academy sponsor led · 1,042 pupils
71% stayed in education · Attainment 8 31.4
Lord Derby Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,076 pupils
75% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.9
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy
Academy sponsor led · 730 pupils
76% stayed in education · Attainment 8 30.2
The Prescot School
Academy converter · 915 pupils
74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 35.5
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.