Range High School, Liverpool

Ofsted's report card from its 23 June 2026 inspection grades Range High School on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Typically, pupils attain in line with the average in national examinations at the end of key stage 4 and key stage 5."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "In recent years, leaders have embedded effective systems to make sure that pupils attend school regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have improved the curriculum since the previous inspection."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have implemented processes to identify and check that pupils who have barriers to their learning are known to staff."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, including trustees and governors, know what is going well and areas where further improvement is needed."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have implemented a well-designed personal development curriculum."

Post-16 provision - Expected standard. "Leaders have crafted and embedded an ambitious programme of study in the sixth form."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to sharpen the systems they have in place to monitor the effectiveness of their actions. They should use this information to continue to drive improvements across all areas"; "Leaders should continue to develop the processes in place to support pupils with barriers to learning or wellbeing, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils. They should ensure that this leads to sustained improvements in how regularly these pupils attend school and achieve their academic potential".

In 2026, pupils at Range High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 50.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 43.4 in Sefton and 47 across England.

51% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 39% in Sefton and 47% in England.

That is up from 44.2 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.15: pupils made below 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 41.8, against 51.6 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.8 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 26 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Social Studies, Combined Science and Spanish.

For September 2026 entry, 126 families put Range High School as their first choice and 345 named it as one of their preferences, for 144 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 1 family who put it first was not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Range High School are Formby High School (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 51.5); St Michaels Church of England Academy (3.7 miles, Attainment 8 39.6); Holy Family Catholic High School (4.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.2); and Sacred Heart Catholic Academy (4.7 miles, Attainment 8 44.9).

Range High School's 2026 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Range High School is one of 9 schools run by Southport Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.4 in 2024/25.

Of the 198 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 87% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 39% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

Of the 102 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 69% went on to university or other higher education, 3% to apprenticeships and 15% into work. 12% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

13.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 4.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 181 pupils (18.5%) received SEN support and 22 (2.2%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest railway station is Formby Rail Station, about 1170 metres away (roughly a 15-minute walk).

2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Range High School (sw-bound), 90 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Range High School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 38 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Sefton (165).

In 2024/25, Range High School issued 66 suspensions, 6.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Range High School are St Luke's Church of England Primary School (0.4 miles), St Jerome's Catholic Primary School (0.8 miles), Woodlands Primary School (0.8 miles) and Redgate Community Primary School (1.3 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.