United Kingdom / Regions / Wirral
Wirral
North West, England · population ~324k · 124 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 102 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Wirral
124 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 (102 of 124 here), 88% 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 2 schools (1.6% of the LA) have 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 124 schools.
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St John Plessington Catholic College | Secondary | 1,544 | Good | 22/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Weatherhead High School | Secondary | 1,523 | Good | 29/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Calday Grange Grammar School | Secondary | 1,479 | Not graded | 18/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Woodchurch High School | Secondary | 1,415 | Good· | 24/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Birkenhead High School Academy | Secondary | 1,212 | Good | 25/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Wirral Grammar School for Girls | Secondary | 1,194 | Outstanding | 06/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
West Kirby Grammar School | Secondary | 1,186 | Good | 02/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hilbre High School | Secondary | 1,174 | Good· | 13/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
St Mary's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 1,124 | Requires Improvement | 04/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Wirral Grammar School for Boys | Secondary | 1,074 | Good | 08/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Co-op Academy Bebington | Secondary | 1,062 | Good | 18/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
South Wirral High School | Secondary | 1,045 | Good | 11/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Upton Hall School FCJ | Secondary | 1,011 | Outstanding | 28/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Anselm's College | Secondary | 985 | Not graded | 19/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Pensby High School | Secondary | 920 | Good· | 23/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St George's Primary School | Primary | 918 | Good· | 09/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ridgeway High School | Secondary | 903 | Good | 30/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Mosslands School | Secondary | 897 | Requires Improvement | 28/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Oldershaw School | Secondary | 825 | Not graded | 01/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Prenton High School for Girls | Secondary | 781 | Good· | 30/11/2022 | 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.