Three Merseyside schools named in Sunday Times best in North West list

Merseyside has three schools listed among the top 10 state secondary schools in the region.
The Liverpool Blue Coat School, in Wavertree. Image: GoogleThe Liverpool Blue Coat School, in Wavertree. Image: Google
The Liverpool Blue Coat School, in Wavertree. Image: Google

Three top performing Merseyside schools have been named among the ten best in the North West of England.

Research comparing academic achievement and exam results across a three year period has revealed the highest-achieving schools in the UK.

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The data, complied by Parent Power and The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022 ,is widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s best schools.

And Merseyside has three schools listed among the top 10 state secondary schools in the North West.

The Liverpool Blue Coat School, in Wavertree, ranked second, behind Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, and finished 22nd nationally.

The two other schools listed in the top ten were both on the Wirral peninsula.

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Wirral Grammar School for Girls, in Bebington, ranked sixth in the region and 72nd nationally, while West Kirby Grammar School came in ninth in the North West and 99th nationally.

How the rankings are determined

The rankings in the secondary school league tables are determined by the average percentage of examination entries in the three years, 2017-19, gaining A* to B grades at A-level and the average percentage of entries returning 9-7 or A* and A grades at GCSE.

Only schools that published their results in those years or disclosed them to The Sunday Times have been included in the guide, which includes around 1,700 schools.

Examination outcomes from 2020 and 2021 have not been used in determining this year’s Sunday Times Parent Power guide rankings due to the disruption caused by the pandemic.

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Alastair McCall, editor of Parent Power, said: “The need for clarity about school examination performance has never been greater after two years of teacher assessed grades, during which for completely understandable reasons, the numbers of top grades increased dramatically.

“We felt it was important to go back to the last sets of moderated public examination outcomes from 2019, 2018 and 2017 to get the most accurate and current view of school academic achievement. By taking a three-year average, we mitigated against relatively poor performance in a one-off year.”

A fully searchable national database by school name, local authority, town and postcode, together with regional rankings are available on The Times and Sunday Times website.

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