United Kingdom / Regions / Knowsley
Knowsley
North West, England · population ~152k · 60 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 46 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Knowsley
60 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (46 of 60 here), 86.3% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (1.7% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 60 schools.
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Halewood Academy | Secondary | 1,140 | Good· | 17/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
All Saints Catholic High School | Secondary | 1,110 | Good | 16/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Lord Derby Academy | Secondary | 1,078 | Good | 27/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Kirkby High School | Secondary | 1,027 | Good | 12/07/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Prescot School | Secondary | 915 | Requires Improvement | 08/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy | Secondary | 757 | Requires Improvement | 17/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Plantation Primary School | Primary | 478 | Not graded | — | OfstedWebsite |
Northwood Community Primary School (With Designated Special Provision) | Primary | 473 | Not graded | 15/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior School | Primary | 465 | Good· | 14/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Malvern Primary School | Primary | 464 | Good· | 01/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Park Brow Community Primary School | Primary | 461 | Good· | 14/07/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Prescot Primary School | Primary | 446 | Good | 05/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hope Primary School - A Joint Catholic and Church of England Primary School | Primary | 425 | Good· | 12/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Knowsley Lane Primary School | Primary | 408 | Outstanding· | 10/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School | Primary | 403 | Requires Improvement | 04/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Huyton With Roby Church of England Primary School | Primary | 395 | Good· | 27/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Margaret Mary's Catholic Infant School | Primary | 392 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Whiston Willis Primary Academy | Primary | 391 | Outstanding | 24/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Park View Academy | Primary | 381 | Good | 23/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Laurence's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 375 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.