North Liverpool Academy, Liverpool

Ofsted's report card from its 12 May 2026 inspection grades North Liverpool Academy on 6 areas: 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Leaders have effective systems in place to check how well pupils achieve."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have strengthened how they check and follow up on pupils' attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Recently, leaders have strengthened the systems in place to improve teaching, and teachers now receive high-quality training and support to improve their practice."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have embedded a supportive and inclusive ethos where all pupils can succeed."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, including trustees, governors and the chief executive officer, share a highly ambitious vision for what pupils can achieve at North Liverpool Academy."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have embedded an appropriate personal development curriculum that teaches pupils how to contribute responsibly to their communities."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should refine the processes they have in place to evaluate the impact of their actions. They should use this information to drive improvements across all areas"; "Leaders should continue to sharpen the systems in place for identifying any pupils who may encounter barriers to their learning or wellbeing so that all pupils can achieve their potential".

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, netball, karate, chess, robotics and Duke of Edinburgh.

In 2026, pupils at North Liverpool Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 50.5, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 42.8 in Liverpool and 47 across England.

48% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 38% in Liverpool and 47% in England.

That is up from 45.6 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.02: pupils made about average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 45.7, against 56.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 11 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 27 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Spanish and Business Studies.

For September 2026 entry, 410 families put North Liverpool Academy as their first choice and 795 named it as one of their preferences, for 219 places offered. That is 1.9 first choices for every place. 211 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to North Liverpool Academy are Notre Dame Catholic Academy (0.4 miles, Attainment 8 30); The Academy of St Francis of Assisi (1.1 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 32.8); Marydale Lodge Sch (1.3 miles); and Purple Ruler (1.4 miles).

North Liverpool Academy's 2026 results were higher than all 2 of them.

North Liverpool Academy is one of 8 schools run by Northern Schools Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 44.9 in 2024/25.

Of the 218 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 82% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 45% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

Of the 82 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 63% went on to university or other higher education and 17% into work. 10% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

48% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 40.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (46%), Black (15%) and other ethnic groups (8%).

The nearest railway station is Sandhills Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.

12 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hamilton Road (adjacent), 160 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood North Liverpool Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 742 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, public order offences and drug offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Liverpool (342), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, North Liverpool Academy issued 255 suspensions, 19.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 8 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to North Liverpool Academy are The Beacon Church of England Primary School (0.2 miles), Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School (0.2 miles), Four Oaks Community Primary School (0.3 miles) and Faith Primary Academy (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.