Birkenhead High School Academy
All-through · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–19 · Prenton, Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Birkenhead High School Academy is an all-through school in Prenton, Wirral for ages 3–19 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 April 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Birkenhead High School Academy catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2025 | Not published |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- A level results in 2024/25 averaged grade C+ (England B-), with progress from GCSE to A level rated average.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 67 first-choice applications for 56 offers; 55 went to first-choice families, and 12 first-choice families (18%) were not offered a place.
- The school had 1,226 girls on roll in January 2026, and 19.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wirral schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- 86 Devonshire Place, Prenton, CH43 1TY
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 3–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 1,226 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this school.”
- “Pupils understand the importance of tolerating people who are different to themselves.”
- “Leaders deal with any incidents of bullying quickly and effectively.”
To improve
- “Although pupils’ outcomes by the end of key stage 2 in 2022 were not consistently strong, leaders have taken the necessary action to improve the quality of education for pupils.”
- “However, in some subjects, these systems are not implemented as effectively as they could be.”
- “At times, some teachers move on to new learning before they have checked that pupils are ready.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 61% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 45% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 50.5 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 67 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 55 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 163 first-preference applications, 116 offers in total, 111 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Wirral.
- Birkenhead School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Wirral Hospitals' School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Progress Schools - Wirral 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Kilgarth School 0.9 mi Standards maintained
- Horizons Independent School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- IMPACT Northwest Schools 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Wirral Wrap 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Foxfield School 1.5 mi School remains Good