Secondary
Holy Family Catholic High School
Virgins Lane, Thornton, Liverpool, L23 4UL
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1012 of 869 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.3
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Religious character
- Yes
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Liverpool
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 61.9
- All staff (FTE)
- 84.4
- Pupils per adult
- 12.0
- Pupils
- 1,009
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected October 2024
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
44%
5 points above the Sefton average (39% across 17 schools)
44.8
1.5 above the Sefton average (43.3 across 17 schools)
5th of 17 by our score, among the secondary schools in Sefton we can score - 25 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 44.8 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.7 |
| Entered the EBacc | 12% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 63% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 44% |
| A level average points per entry | 30.66 |
| A level students | 65 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 50% |
| 22/23 | 45% |
| 23/24 | 38% |
| 24/25 | 44% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 36.9 |
| 22/23 | 28.9 |
| 23/24 | 29.0 |
| 24/25 | 30.7 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.28 |
| 22/23 | -0.02 |
| 23/24 | -0.21 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 49.8 |
| 22/23 | 48.0 |
| 23/24 | 44.0 |
| 24/25 | 44.8 |
Virgins Lane, Thornton, Liverpool, L23 4UL
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Sefton admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Matthew Symes
- Address
- Virgins Lane, Thornton, Liverpool, L23 4UL
- Telephone
- 01519246451