King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–16 · Bootle, Sefton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
3.291 miles
Published by Sefton Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes is a secondary school in Bootle, Sefton for ages 11–16 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 September 2023. Sefton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes 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 | 3.291 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
- 17% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25, lowest among this school and the 7 of the 8 nearest Sefton secondary schools that have results.
- In 2026 the last Year 7 place went to a child 3.291 miles away, 4th longest of 9 Sefton secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance.
- Year 7 2026 drew 130 first-choice applications for 167 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 37 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 61.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 42.4% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Sefton.
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
- Fernhill Road, Bootle, L20 6AQ
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sefton
- Pupils on roll
- 708 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 61.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 September 2023
Strengths
- “More and more pupils are joining this school as a result of its increasingly good reputation in the local community.”
- “Pupils embrace the school’s ASPIRE values and ethos.”
- “They follow school routines and get on well together.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, teachers do not use this information well enough to adapt future teaching to enable them to embed missing knowledge.”
- “Consequently, in these subjects, pupils cannot build successfully on what they have learned before and struggle to remember their learning over time.”
- “However, despite the best efforts of staff, there are still some pupils who do not attend regularly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 November 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) | 17% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 32.2 | 46 |
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: 130 first-preference applications, 167 offers in total, 130 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.
- The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hillside High School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Litherland High School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Chesterfield High School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Academy 2.3 mi Not judged
- Holy Family Catholic High School 2.8 mi Standards maintained
- St Michaels Church of England Academy 3.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Maghull High School 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published