Palmerston School
Special schoolPalmerston School is a special school in Liverpool, for pupils aged 11 to 19. It had 184 pupils at the school census in January 2026.
Ofsted
Latest inspections as at 30 September 2026Standards maintained, March 2025
- Latest ungraded inspection
- Standards maintained, 5 March 2025
Outcomes as Ofsted published them. Report cards (from November 2025) give no overall grade, and grades under different frameworks can’t be compared.
Results
Department for EducationEnd of secondary school (KS4, GCSEs)
2025/26, provisional| Measure | This school | Liverpool | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Attainment 8 score | Does not apply to this school | 41.9 | 46.2 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 37.7% | 46.3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | Does not apply to this school | 55.2% | 64.8% |
| Pupils at the end of KS4 | 27 | – | – |
- Palmerston School teaches pupils with needs that most schools' pupils do not have, often in very small year groups, so its results are not a fair comparison with mainstream schools. They are not shown on the map.
- The 2025/26 figures are provisional. The Department for Education publishes revised ones later in the school year.
- Progress 8 cannot be worked out for 2025/26, because the KS2 tests that give the starting point were cancelled in 2020 and 2021.
- Results reflect the pupils a school admits as well as its teaching, and a year's results can move a lot in a small school.
Schools nearby
In a straight line- St Margaret's Church of England AcademySecondary. Good (overall), April 2024. Attainment 8 of 48.7 (2025/26, provisional)160 m
- Sudley Primary SchoolPrimary. Report card, June 2026: safeguarding met. 83% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)310 m
- St Charles' Catholic AcademyPrimary. School remains Good, February 20231.4 km
- St Austin's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary. School remains Good, October 2023. 65% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.4 km
- St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Community Primary SchoolPrimary. School remains Good, June 2023. 53% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.5 km
- Liverpool CollegeAll-through. Standards maintained, June 2025. 70% met the expected standard at KS2 (2024/25)1.6 km
Admissions and catchments are set by councils and schools, which Open Index doesn’t map. Every school in Liverpool
Where these figures come from
- Schools: the school lists of the Department for Education, the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government, with Ofsted’s latest inspections for England.
- Results: the Department for Education’s school performance tables (Open Government Licence).