Hillside High School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Bootle, Sefton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
0.645 miles
Published by Sefton Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hillside High School is a secondary school in Bootle, Sefton for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 September 2023. Sefton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Hillside 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 | 0.645 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
- For Year 7 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.645 miles away, the shortest of the 9 Sefton secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance.
- Year 7 2026 drew 242 first-choice applications for 162 offers; 153 offers went to first-choice families, and 89 first-choice families (37%) were not offered a place.
- For Year 7 2026, 267 of the 493 applications (54%) came from families living outside Sefton, and 71 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 35% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 39.8 (England 46).
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
- Breeze Hill, Bootle, L20 9NU
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sefton
- Pupils on roll
- 785 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 56.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 September 2023
Strengths
- “Hillside High School is an accepting community.”
- “Pupils feel welcome and diversity is celebrated.”
- “For instance, pupils proudly took part in an ‘around the world in eighty days’ event to promote their culture and educate others about it.”
To improve
- “However, the thinking behind the key stage 4 curriculum has not been as rigorous.”
- “As a result, the school does not have the same level of confidence in the curriculum.”
- “It has not fully considered the precise details that pupils need to learn.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 October 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) | 35% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 39.8 | 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: 242 first-preference applications, 162 offers in total, 153 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.
- King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Litherland High School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Chesterfield High School 3.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Academy 3.3 mi Not judged
- Holy Family Catholic High School 3.8 mi Standards maintained
- Maghull High School 4.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Michaels Church of England Academy 4.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published