King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool

Secondary Academy Liverpool 📅 Term dates 2025–2026 🏅 Ofsted: Good 📊 Attainment 8: 34.5

King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool is a mixed secondary academy in Liverpool, Liverpool City Council, teaching 940 pupils aged 11 to 18. Its last Ofsted inspection in September 2023 found the school remains Good. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 34.5 (England 46.1). Term dates and holidays for 2025–2026 are listed below.

Ofsted inspection

The latest published Ofsted judgement for King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool.

Latest inspection
Good Ungraded inspection
Outcome: School remains Good. Ungraded (short) inspections confirm whether standards are maintained since the last full graded inspection — they don’t assign new category grades.
Ungraded inspection · Inspected 14 Sep 2023 · Published 15 Oct 2023
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Term dates & holidays 2025–2026

Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool.

King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool term dates calendar 2025–2026
Official term-dates calendar · 2025–2026 · source

Key dates (2025–2026)

  • Staff Inset Days 1st Sep 2025 - 2nd Sep 2025 Inset Day
  • First day of Autumn Term 3rd Sep 2025 Term
  • Autumn Half Term Holiday 27th Oct 2025 - 31st Oct 2025 Holiday
  • Last day of Autumn Term 19th Dec 2025 Term
  • Christmas Holiday 22nd Dec 2025 - 2nd Jan 2026 Holiday
  • First day of Spring Term 5th Jan 2026 Term
  • Spring Half Term Holiday 16th Feb 2026 - 20th Feb 2026 Holiday
  • Last day of Spring Term 27th Mar 2026 Term
  • Easter Holiday 30th Mar 2026 - 10th Apr 2026 Holiday
  • First day of Summer Term 13th Apr 2026 Term
  • Summer Half Term Holiday 25th May 2026 - 29th May 2026 Holiday
  • Early May Bank Holiday 4th May 2026 Holiday
  • Last day of Summer Term 17th Jul 2026 Term
  • Summer Holiday 20th Jul 2026 - 1st Sep 2026 Holiday
  • Staff Inset Days (plus one TBC) 20th Jul 2026 - 21st Jul 2026 Inset Day

Exam results & performance

DfE performance tables Official results, 2024–2025 GOV.UK ↗
34.5 Attainment 8 England 46.1
21.6% Grade 5+ English & maths England 45.4%
33.3% Persistent absence England 17.8%

The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool with Liverpool City Council and England.

Key stage 4 (GCSE) 34.5 Attainment 8 score

Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.

This school Liverpool City Council England

Attainment 8 score · Average across 8 GCSEs, out of 90 34.5
Liverpool City Council 42.1 England 46.1 -11.6 vs England
Grade 5+ in English & maths · A strong pass 21.6%
Liverpool City Council 38.1% England 45.4% -23.8 vs England
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils 31.2
Liverpool City Council 32 England 34.9 -3.7 vs England
Disadvantage gap · Attainment 8 points; smaller is better 10.5
Liverpool City Council 17.1 England 15.5 -5 vs England
Disadvantaged pupils in the year group · Context for the scores above 68%
Liverpool City Council 41.2% England 28.2%
Pupils in the year group · Small cohorts swing wildly 125
Attendance 33.3% Persistently absent pupils

Absence across the whole school year.

This school Liverpool City Council England

Persistently absent pupils · Missed 10%+ of sessions; lower is better 33.3%
Liverpool City Council 20.6% England 17.8% +15.5 vs England
Overall absence · Lower is better 12.4%
Liverpool City Council 7.6% England 6.8% +5.6 vs England
What pupils do after GCSEs 76% In education, apprenticeship or work

Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.

This school Liverpool City Council England

In education, apprenticeship or work 76%
Liverpool City Council 88% England 92% -16 vs England
Same, for disadvantaged pupils 76%
Liverpool City Council 80% England 83% -7 vs England
About this data source & caveats

Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.

We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.

Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.

Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Location & catchment area

Indicative catchment Other secondary schools

Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.