South Shore Academy
Ofsted: InadequateAcademy sponsor led · Secondary
Blackpool · FY4 2AR · Blackpool
Ages 11–16
- FSM67.6%
0.8 miles away
OpenSecondaryOfsted: Requires improvementURN 142469
Highfield Leadership Academy
Academy sponsor led · Blackpool · FY4 3JZ
Ages 11–16 · 751 pupils · Blackpool
Ofsted
Requires improvement
Attainment 8
34.4
Overall absence
15.9%
Admissions demand
0.89 · Often has places
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2024-03-12
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Progress 8-0.96
−20+2
Attainment 834.4
English & maths grade 5+30%
English & maths grade 4+45%
EBacc entry43%
EBacc APS: 3.1
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence15.9%
Persistent absence (10%+)49.6%
Unauthorised8.9%
- Authorised absence
- 7.0%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 9.5%
- Enrolments in measure
- 693
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for secondary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
0.89 · Often has places
1st preferences
131
Places offered
166
1st-preference offers
131
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 282
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 148
- Applications from outside LA
- 18
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 7
- Admissions policy (GIAS)
- Non-selective
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill63%
751 pupils · 1,200 places
- Pupils on roll
- 751
- Boys / girls
- 366 / 385
- School capacity
- 1,200
- Capacity fill
- 751 / 1,200 (63%)
- Free school meals
- 55.9%
- FSM pupils
- 420
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Governance
- Academy trust: STAR ACADEMIES
- Academy trust
- STAR ACADEMIES
- Sponsor
- Star Academies
- Headteacher
- Mrs Kim Greenwood
Location
- Address
- Highfield Road
- Postcode
- FY4 3JZ
- Town
- Blackpool
- County
- Lancashire
- Local authority
- Blackpool
- District
- Blackpool
- Constituency
- Blackpool South
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–16, in Blackpool, Blackpool, 751 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 55.9%.
Nearby secondary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
St George's School A Church of England Academy
Ofsted: Improved significantlyAcademy converter · Secondary
Blackpool · FY4 4PH · Blackpool
Ages 11–16
- Att852.7
- P80.4
- EM5+70%
- Absence7.1%
0.9 miles away
St Mary's Catholic Academy
Ofsted: GoodAcademy converter · Secondary
Blackpool · FY3 7EQ · Blackpool
Ages 11–18
- Att842.0
- P8-0.7
- EM5+28%
- Absence7.4%
2.7 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Kim Greenwood
- Telephone
- 01253965750