Alsop High School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,336 pupils
77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 28.2
Community special school
Abbot's Lea School
- Pupils on roll
- 272of 272 places
- Free school meals
- 65.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 39
- Ofsted
- Outstanding, 10 July 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 29 pupils who finished Year 11 at Abbot's Lea School in 2023, 7% stayed on in Abbot's Lea School’s own sixth form (Liverpool average 46%), 28% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
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.
Abbot's Lea School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 2.3, 0% 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 Liverpool and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Abbot's Lea School | Liverpool | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 29 | 5,186 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 93% | 88% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 93% | 83% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 7% | 46% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 5% | 13% |
| — further education college | 28% | 30% | 37% |
| — other education | 59% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 3% | 8% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 4% | 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 | Abbot's Lea School | Liverpool | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 2.3 | 42.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 38% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 57% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 36% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.15 | 3.64 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 72% | 41% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 1.7 | 32.0 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 3.7 | 49.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 17% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 8 | 21% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 13% |
| English Language | 7 | 18% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 0% |
| English Literature | 6 | 15% | 86% | 0% | 21% | 0% |
| Biology | 3 | 8% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
Other secondary schools in Liverpool
Archbishop Beck Catholic College
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,142 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.5
Archbishop Blanch CofE High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,179 pupils
96% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.0
Bellerive FCJ Catholic College
Academy converter · sixth form · 955 pupils
86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.3
Broughton Hall Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,175 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.2
Calderstones School
Community school · sixth form · 1,592 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.1
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.