Community special school
Liverpool · L36 7SY · Knowsley
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.0 miles away
OpenURN 104498
Alt Bridge School
Community special school · Liverpool · L36 7TA
Age range
Ages 11–19
Pupils
356
Local authority
Knowsley
Age range
Ages 11–19
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community special school, Ages 11–19, in Liverpool, Knowsley, 356 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, special school. Free school meals: 66.7%. SEN provision includes: SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability….
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Overview
- School type
- Community special school
- Age range
- 11–19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 104498
Location
- Address
- Wellcroft Road, Huyton
- Postcode
- L36 7TA
- Town
- Liverpool
- County
- Merseyside
- Local authority
- Knowsley
- District
- Knowsley
- Constituency
- Knowsley
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 356
- Boys / girls
- 253 / 103
- School capacity
- 230
- Capacity fill
- 356 / 230 (155%)
- Free school meals
- 66.7%
- FSM pupils
- 204
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
- Governance
- Community special school
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; HI - Hearing Impairment; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Natalie Menagh
- Telephone
- 01514778310
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2023-10-11
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 2.3
- Progress 8
- -2.5
- English & maths grade 5+
- 0%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 6%
- EBacc entry
- 0%
- EBacc APS
- 0.1