The Prescot School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Liverpool, Knowsley
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Knowsley Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Prescot School is a secondary school in Liverpool, Knowsley for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 8 May 2024. Knowsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
The Prescot 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Ofsted judged it Requires improvement on 8 May 2024; of the 5 nearest secondary schools in Knowsley, 3 are Good, 1 Requires improvement and 1 has no current grade.
- In 2024/25, 23% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 3rd lowest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 nearest secondary schools in Knowsley.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 132 first-choice applications for 202 offers: 0.7 first choices per offer, the 2nd lowest of 6 Knowsley secondary schools.
- Every Year 7 applicant was offered a place in 2026, with 70 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Knowsley Park Lane, Prescot, Liverpool, L34 3NB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Knowsley
- Pupils on roll
- 915 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 52.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 8 May 2024
Strengths
- “Over recent years, the school has increased its ambition for pupils.”
- “In the main, pupils are learning more effectively than they did in the past.”
- “The new behaviour systems have raised teachers’ expectations for pupil conduct.”
To improve
- “However, as a result of the previous curriculums, some pupils do not achieve as well as they should.”
- “However, outside of lessons, their behaviour is more variable.”
- “During breaktimes, a small number of pupils do not respond quickly enough to staff’s instructions, especially when they are behaving in a boisterous way.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 June 2024 (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) | 23% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 35.5 | 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: 132 first-preference applications, 202 offers in total, 132 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.
- Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy 1.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Lord Derby Academy 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Kirkby High School 4.3 mi Good Last distance published
- All Saints Catholic High School 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Halewood Academy 4.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published