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106 open schools · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · best primary schools · best secondary schools

Sefton has 104 state schools: 74 primary, 18 secondary, 3 nursery. Between them they teach around 39,861 pupils. 87 have enough published data for a score, averaging 4.2 out of 10, and 3 score 8 or above.

17 have a sixth form. 56 take children from age three or under. 46 have a religious character, which usually means the school sets its own admissions criteria rather than the council's. How the score works.

Good or better

76

of 80 rated

Average score

4.2

out of 10

Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

Lydiate Primary School Good · ×0.62 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Luke's Halsall Church of England Primary School Good · ×0.63 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Green Park Primary School Good · ×0.77 1st prefs/place (2026/27) King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes Good · ×0.78 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.79 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St George's Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.79 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Mary's Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.8 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Great Crosby Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.81 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.81 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St John's Church of England Primary School Good · ×0.81 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Sefton

Primary schools: Catchment-area mechanism exists in policy framework, but explicitly applies to only 'a small number' of the 33 LA-run schools — most Sefton schools have no catchment at all. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Ainsdale St John's Church of England Primary School Southport Aintree Davenhill Primary School Liverpool · Good All Saints Catholic Primary School Bootle Arden College · Good Bedford Primary School Liverpool Birkdale High School Southport Birkdale Primary School Southport · Good Bishop David Sheppard Church of England Primary School Southport · Good Cambridge Nursery School Liverpool Chesterfield High School Liverpool · Good Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School Bootle · Good Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre Southport · Good Churchtown Primary School Southport · Good Crosby High School Liverpool · Not judged Crossens Nursery School Southport · Good Deyes High School Liverpool · Not judged English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good Farnborough Road Infant School Southport · Good Farnborough Road Junior School Southport · Good Forefield Community Infant and Nursery School Liverpool · Good Forefield Junior School Liverpool · Good Formby High School Liverpool · Good Freshfield Primary School Liverpool · Outstanding Great Crosby Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good Green Park Primary School Liverpool · Good Greenacre Community Nursery School Bootle · Good Greenbank High School Southport · Good Hatton Hill Primary School Liverpool · Good Hillside High School Bootle · Good Holy Family Catholic High School Liverpool · Good Holy Family Catholic Primary School Southport · Good Holy Rosary Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Not judged Holy Spirit Catholic Academy Bootle · Not judged Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Southport Southport Hudson Primary School Liverpool · Good Hugh Baird College Bootle · Outstanding Kew Woods Primary School Southport · Good King's Lander Primary Academy Liverpool · Good King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes Bootle · Good Kings Meadow Primary School and Early Years Education Centre Southport · Good Larkfield Primary School Southport · Good Linacre Primary School Bootle Linaker Primary School Southport · Requires improvement Litherland High School Liverpool · Good Litherland Moss Primary School Liverpool · Good Lydiate Primary School Liverpool · Good Maghull High School Liverpool Maricourt Catholic High School Liverpool Marshside Primary School Southport · Good Melling Primary School Liverpool · Good Meols Cop High School Southport · Good Merchant Taylors' Schools Liverpool Merefield School Southport Netherton Moss Primary School Bootle · Not judged Newfield School Liverpool · Good Northway Primary School Liverpool · Good Norwood Primary School Southport · Good Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School Select · Good Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School Southport · Good Our Lady of Walsingham Primary School Bootle · Requires improvement Peterhouse School Southport Presfield High School and Specialist College Southport · Good Range High School Liverpool · Good Redgate Community Primary School Liverpool · Good Rimrose Hope CofE Primary School Liverpool · Outstanding Rowan Park School Liverpool · Outstanding Sacred Heart Catholic Academy Liverpool · Not judged Shoreside Primary School Southport · Good Southport Education Group Southport · Requires improvement Springwell Park Community Primary School Bootle · Good St Andrews Church of England Primary School, Maghull Liverpool · Good St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Bootle · Good St Edmund's and St Thomas' Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good St George's Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good St Gregory's Catholic Primary School Merseyside St Jerome's Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good St John Bosco Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good St John's Church of England Primary School Southport St John's Church of England Primary School Liverpool · Good St Luke's Church of England Primary School Formby · Good St Luke's Halsall Church of England Primary School Liverpool · Good St Mary's Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good St Michaels Church of England Academy Crosby · Inadequate St Monica's Catholic Primary School Bootle · Not judged St Nicholas Church of England Primary School Liverpool · Good St Oswald's Church of England Primary School Bootle · Good St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Southport · Good St Philip's Church of England Controlled Primary School Liverpool St Philip's Church of England Primary School Southport · Good St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School Bootle · Outstanding St Thomas Church of England Primary School, Lydiate Liverpool · Outstanding St William of York Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good St. Mary's College Liverpool Stanley High School Southport · Not judged Summerhill Primary School Liverpool · Good The Grange Primary School Bootle · Good The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco Bootle Thomas Gray Primary School Bootle · Good Trinity St Peter's CofE Primary School Liverpool · Outstanding Ursuline Catholic Primary School Liverpool · Good Valewood Primary School Liverpool · Good Waterloo Primary School Liverpool · Good Woodlands Primary School Liverpool

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Bootle 18 schools Southport 31 schools

Key dates

Entry year	Event	Date
Sept 2028	Application deadline	31 October 2027
Sept 2028	Primary application deadline	15 January 2028
Sept 2028	Offer day	1 March 2028
Sept 2028	Primary offer day	17 April 2028
Sept 2027	Application deadline	31 October 2026
Sept 2027	Primary application deadline	15 January 2027
Sept 2027	Offer day	1 March 2027
Sept 2027	Primary offer day	16 April 2027
Sept 2026	Application deadline	31 October 2025 (passed)
Sept 2026	Primary application deadline	15 January 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026	Offer day	2 March 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026	Primary offer day	16 April 2026 (passed)

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