School profile
Crosby High School
De Villiers Avenue, Crosby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L23 2TH
Overview
Crosby High School is a special / send school (community special school) in Liverpool, North West, for pupils aged 11–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Community special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 11–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 175
- Pupils on roll
- 173
- URN
- 104980
Admissions
- Local authority
- Sefton
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Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Secondary
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 score | 0.3 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.02 |
| Entering the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English & maths | 0% |
| Grade 5 or above in English & maths | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 24 June 2025 · Published 20 July 2025
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 2 February 2024 · Published 27 March 2024
Outcome: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
- VI - Visual Impairment
- OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
- HI - Hearing Impairment
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- PD - Physical Disability
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- De Villiers Avenue, Crosby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L23 2TH
- Local authority
- Sefton
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