Formby High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Liverpool, Sefton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
3.439 miles
Published by Sefton Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Formby High School is a secondary school in Liverpool, Sefton for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 November 2022. Sefton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Formby High School 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 3.439 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2015 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 lived 3.439 miles away, the 3rd longest of 9 Sefton secondary schools with a published last distance.
- For Year 7, the 2026 last distance was further from the school than in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 7 years.
- In 2026, Year 7 had 185 first-choice applications for 168 offers; 166 offers went to first-choice families, and 19 first-choice families were not offered a place.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sefton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Freshfield Road, Formby, Liverpool, L37 3HW
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sefton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,157 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 November 2022
Strengths
- “The pupils describe Formby High School as a welcoming and friendly school where people’s differences are celebrated.”
- “Pupils settle into school quickly and soon become part of the school community.”
- “Pupils are inspired to succeed.”
To improve
- “That said, in some subjects, teachers are not using assessments effectively to pinpoint gaps in pupils’ learning.”
- “This means that teachers in some subjects are less certain about what learning pupils should revisit before moving on.”
- “However, some pupils told inspectors that they found the personal development programme to be overly repetitive and that activities were not always relevant to them.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 December 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 66% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 54.3 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 185 first-preference applications, 168 offers in total, 166 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Sefton.
- Range High School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Birkdale High School 4.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Michaels Church of England Academy 4.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenbank High School 4.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic High School 4.9 mi Standards maintained
- Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre 5.3 mi Good
- Chesterfield High School 5.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Academy 5.5 mi Not judged