South Wirral High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Wirral
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Wirral Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
South Wirral High School is a secondary school in Wirral for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
South Wirral 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every Year 7 applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 6 of the 18 other Wirral secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- Year 7 in 2026 had 164 first-choice applications for 178 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 14 went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of 329 applications for Year 7 in 2026, 47 (14%) came from families living outside Wirral, and 21 offers went to them.
- Free school meal eligibility is 36.2% of pupils, below the 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
- Plymyard Avenue, Eastham, Wirral, CH62 8EH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 1,019 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 164 first-preference applications, 178 offers in total, 164 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 Boys 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Wirral Grammar School for Girls 3.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Bebington 3.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Plessington Catholic College 3.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Prenton High School for Girls 4.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodchurch High School 6.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pensby High School 6.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Birkenhead Park School 6.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published