Chesterfield High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Liverpool, Sefton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.858 miles
Published by Sefton Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chesterfield High School is a secondary school in Liverpool, Sefton for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 29 March 2023. Sefton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Chesterfield 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 | 1.858 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 1.858 miles away, the 4th shortest of 9 Sefton secondary schools with a published last distance.
- For Year 7, the 2026 last distance was further out than in 2025 but nearer than in 2021, having swung sharply between some years.
- In 2026 Year 7 entry, 327 first-choice applications for 305 offers; 274 offers went to first-choice families, and 53 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths, against 45% in England.
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
- Chesterfield Road, Crosby, Liverpool, L23 9YB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sefton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,692 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, including students in the sixth form, said that they feel cared for by staff.”
- “Pupils benefit from mutually respectful and trusting relationships with their teachers.”
- “Added to this, pupils are reassured by the fact that they can seek guidance from each other.”
To improve
- “That said, in a small number of subjects, some staff do not use assessment strategies well to identify and address some pupils’ misunderstandings.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 May 2023 (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) | 53% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 48.4 | 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 Year 7 entry: 327 first-preference applications, 305 offers in total, 274 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.
- Holy Family Catholic High School 0.6 mi Standards maintained
- Sacred Heart Catholic Academy 0.8 mi Not judged
- Litherland High School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Michaels Church of England Academy 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Maghull High School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Maricourt Catholic High School 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade