The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

LIPA School

URN 141103 · All Through · Free schools · Liverpool

Upper Duke Street, Liverpool, L1 7BT

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

Ofsted category of concern: Special measures

At its inspection on 5 June 2025 (Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework)), this school was placed in the category special measures.

Ofsted judged the school to be failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education, and not to have the capacity to make the necessary improvements without help.

This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 45 families named LIPA School as their first preference, and the school made 51 offers.

That is 0.88 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 18% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 18% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.19 in 2021–2022 and 0.92 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 11 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 45 82 51 0.88
2024 54 116 56 0.96
2023 76 134 52 1.46
2022 70 130 52 1.35
2021 54 110 52 1.04
2020 68 135 52 1.31
2019 57 116 52 1.10
2018 69 130 52 1.33
2017 63 125 52 1.21
2016 61 117 52 1.17
2015 47 96 52 0.90

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 5 June 2025

Category of concern: Special measures

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Inadequate

Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate

Personal development: Inadequate

Leadership and management: Inadequate

Early years: Inadequate

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 - - - -
2023/24 - - - -
2022/23 - - - -

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 40.0% 2.0% 103.0 101.0
2023/24 49.0% 4.0% 102.0 102.0
2022/23 32.0% 9.0% 103.0 99.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 38.8 31.0 4.8 3.0 20.1%
2023/24 33.4 28.0 1.0 4.4 16.2%
2022/23 25.2 24.2 0.0 1.0 4.0%
2021/22 18.2 17.2 0.0 1.0 5.5%
2020/21 18.2 15.2 0.0 3.0 16.5%
2019/20 13.2 13.2 0.0 0.0 0.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 4 nearest all through schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from LIPA School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.