Alsop High School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,336 pupils
77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 28.2
Community special school
Palmerston School
- Pupils on roll
- 184of 175 places
- Free school meals
- 46.4%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 19
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained, 5 March 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 24 pupils who finished Year 11 at Palmerston School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Palmerston School’s own sixth form (Liverpool average 46%), none went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.
Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Liverpool and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Palmerston School | Liverpool | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 24 | 5,186 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 100% | 88% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 100% | 83% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 46% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 5% | 13% |
| — further education college | 0% | 30% | 37% |
| — other education | 100% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 0% | 8% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 0% | 4% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.
Where Palmerston School is
Other secondary schools in Liverpool are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Liverpool’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Liverpool
Archbishop Beck Catholic College
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,142 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.5
Archbishop Blanch CofE High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,179 pupils
96% stayed in education · Attainment 8 57.0
Bellerive FCJ Catholic College
Academy converter · sixth form · 955 pupils
86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.3
Broughton Hall Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school · sixth form · 1,175 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.2
Calderstones School
Community school · sixth form · 1,592 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.1
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.