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Schools in Knowsley
This page shows schools in this area ranked on the basis of their "value added" measures from Key Stage 2 to GCSE.

The measure compares pupils' exam performances with the middle performance of other pupils nationally who had similar prior attainment.

It is based around 1000. The top 5% had a score of 1056.6 and above - the best being 1099.8. Smaller schools, with fewer than 30 students taking the exams, are not ranked.

Click on the name of any school to go to its individual page in the main tables.

Click the Name column for an alphabetical list or on GCSE or A/AS to sort schools on those results.

In the GCSE columns:

  • the Old measure is the percentage of pupils who gained at least five GCSEs at grades A*-C or the equivalent
  • the New measure is the percentage of pupils who gained at least five GCSEs at grades A*-C or the equivalent including English and maths GCSEs
Click here for a fuller explanation of the figures.

SORT BY NAME SORT BY GCSE (%) SORT BY SCORE
Institution Old New VA A/AS
All Saints Catholic High School 44 17 976 162.9
Halewood Community Comprehensive School 43 27 967.1 158
St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, A Specialist Technology College 52 34 961.5 NA
Prescot School 43 22 960 NA
Knowsley Hey School 38 27 944.2 NA
Bowring Comprehensive School 36 24 935.9 NA
Brookfield High School 31 15 933.8 NA
St Edmund of Canterbury Catholic High School 29 19 930.7 NA
Higher Side Community Comprehensive School 33 20 927.9 NA
St Thomas Becket Catholic High School 33 27 927.4 NA
Ruffwood School 41 20 923.7 NA
English secondary schools 2004

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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland do not publish tables.

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