Co-op Academy Bebington
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Wirral
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.413 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Co-op Academy Bebington is a secondary school in Wirral for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 18 April 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Co-op Academy Bebington 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 | 2.413 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 29% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 37.3 (England 46).
- For Year 7 2026 the last distance offered was 2.413 miles, the 2nd shortest of the 10 Wirral secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance.
- Year 7 2026 drew 210 first-choice applications for 177 offers; 176 went to first-choice families, and 34 first-choice families (16%) were not offered a place.
- Of pupils on roll, 52% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 42.9% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Wirral.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wirral schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Higher Bebington Road, Bebington, Wirral, CH63 2PS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 1,044 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 52% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 18 April 2023
Strengths
- “At Co-op Academy Bebington, pupils, and students in the sixth form, thrive.”
- “They know that leaders and teachers have high expectations of them and they rise to meet them.”
- “Academically, all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), benefit from an ambitious and carefully designed curriculum.”
To improve
- “However, some teachers do not use this information as well as they could to adapt the delivery of the curriculum for these pupils.”
- “In some lessons, this prevents pupils with SEND from achieving as highly as they could.”
- “However, a small number of pupils, many of whom are disadvantaged, do not attend school regularly enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 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) | 29% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 37.3 | 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: 210 first-preference applications, 177 offers in total, 176 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 Wirral.
- Wirral Grammar School for Girls 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Wirral Grammar School for Boys 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Plessington Catholic College 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Prenton High School for Girls 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Birkenhead Park School 2.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Anselm's College 2.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Woodchurch High School 3.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ridgeway High School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published