King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool

About King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool

King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool sits within the Liverpool local authority, a secondary school for mixed pupils aged 11 to 18. In the most recent local rankings based on Progress 8 scores, it placed 18th out of 30 schools in the same tier, putting it in the bottom half of its immediate peers. For context, the top-performing schools in the area include The Blue Coat School, Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School, and Archbishop Blanch CofE High School, all of which post significantly higher Progress 8 scores. The school itself has a Progress 8 score of -0.54, which is below the Liverpool local authority average of -0.4, and nationally it sits in the bottom 50% of schools. Despite this, the school has a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has held since its most recent graded inspection in 2018, with an ungraded inspection in 2023 confirming it remains Good. The headteacher is Scott Cordon, and the school operates with no religious character.

Academically, the school's Attainment 8 score is 35, and 45.8% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs, with 26.7% achieving a grade 5 or above in both. The EBacc average point score is 3.08, and only 12.2% of pupils entered the EBacc, with 3.1% achieving a grade 5 or above in the combination. Progress 8 is well below average across all measures, including English (-0.46), maths (-0.49), and the EBacc subjects (-0.66). The school has a sixth form, though no separate exam results are provided for that phase. The Ofsted report from 2018 rated leadership and management as Good, and the overall effectiveness as Good, with the previous inspection in 2016 having rated the school as Requires Improvement. The school has clearly improved since then, but the current Progress 8 data suggests there is still work to do in raising attainment across the board.

The school is oversubscribed for the 2025/26 academic year, with 241 applications for 201 places and 76 first-preference offers made. It has a large number of pupils on free school meals, at 61.8%, and operates at near capacity with 898 pupils against a capacity of 900. Facilities are strong, including science labs, a sports hall, music rooms, a theatre, tennis courts, an ICT suite, a swimming pool, playing fields, a library, art studios, a gymnasium, and a sixth form centre. Sports offered include hockey, tennis, basketball, swimming, rowing, rounders, cross country, rugby, netball, and gymnastics. Clubs range from DofE and Model UN to coding, gardening, and Young Enterprise. SEND provisions cover a wide range, including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional mental health, speech and language communication, visual impairment, physical disability, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulties. This school will suit families looking for a large, inclusive secondary with a broad extracurricular offer and a sixth form, but who are aware that academic outcomes are currently below local averages.

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