Academy converter · Secondary
Liverpool · L34 3NB · Knowsley
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
1.7 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 140412
Lord Derby Academy
Academy sponsor led · Liverpool · L36 6DG
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–16
Pupils
1,076
Local authority
Knowsley
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have 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 academy sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–16, in Liverpool, Knowsley, 1,076 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 56.9%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 140412
Location
- Address
- Seel Road, Huyton
- Postcode
- L36 6DG
- 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
- 1,076
- Boys / girls
- 531 / 545
- School capacity
- 1,100
- Capacity fill
- 1,076 / 1,100 (98%)
- Free school meals
- 56.9%
- FSM pupils
- 612
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: THE DEAN TRUST
- Academy trust
- THE DEAN TRUST
- Sponsor
- The Dean Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Victoria Gowan
- Telephone
- 01514778860
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
2023-06-27
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- 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
- 38.7
- Progress 8
- -0.6
- English & maths grade 5+
- 26%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 48%
- EBacc entry
- 75%
- EBacc APS
- 3.6