Lord Derby Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Liverpool, Knowsley
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.410 miles
Published by Knowsley Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lord Derby Academy is a secondary school in Liverpool, Knowsley for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 June 2023. Knowsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Lord Derby 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 1.410 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.410 miles from the school, the 2nd longest of 4 Knowsley secondary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2024/25, 28% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 39.9 (England 46).
- For Year 7 2026, there were 284 first-choice applications for 217 offers; 208 offers went to first-choice families, and 76 first-choice families (27%) were not offered a place.
- 56.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 5 nearest secondary schools in Knowsley is 48.9%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Knowsley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Seel Road, Huyton, Liverpool, L36 6DG
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Knowsley
- Pupils on roll
- 1,076 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils know that they must be ready to learn when they step over the green line at the school entrance at the start of each day.”
- “This physical marker is an effective reminder to pupils to conduct themselves in line with leaders’ high expectations.”
- “Leaders have redesigned the curriculum for pupils.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, teachers do not carefully check how well pupils remember important information over time.”
- “This means that some pupils develop gaps in their knowledge that teachers do not identify as quickly as they should.”
- “However, some of the oldest pupils who find reading difficult have not benefited from this reading programme over their time in school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 September 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) | 28% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 39.9 | 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: 284 first-preference applications, 217 offers in total, 208 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 Knowsley.
- The Prescot School 1.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy 2.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Halewood Academy 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kirkby High School 4.9 mi Good Last distance published
- All Saints Catholic High School 5.5 mi Good Last distance published