Calday Grange Grammar School

Calday Grange Grammar School demonstrates strong overall performance, maintaining high standards since its last inspection. The school has a broad and ambitious curriculum, with teachers who are knowledgeable and capable of effectively delivering educational content. Students exhibit a strong sense of ambition and pride in their learning environment, enhanced by a variety of extracurricular opportunities that foster personal development and community involvement. The supportive pastoral care and effective safeguarding measures contribute to a positive school culture. However, some inconsistencies in teaching strategies and assessment methods have been identified, particularly affecting certain pupils' learning outcomes.

Strengths

• Pupils display excellent attitudes toward learning.
• The curriculum is broad and ambitious, allowing incremental knowledge building.
• Teachers are knowledgeable experts in their fields.
• Pupils engage positively in extracurricular activities.
• The sixth form is thriving with strong support for students.
• There is a caring pastoral support system that promotes mental well-being.
• Pupils have a secure understanding of life in modern Britain.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistencies in the use of chosen teaching strategies in some subjects.
• Assessment strategies are not always effective in securing pupils' understanding.
• Some pupils develop gaps in knowledge due to insufficient support.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Calday Grange Grammar School attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 8.6% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.3% of pupils at Calday Grange Grammar School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Calday Grange Grammar School had 16.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.1% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 7.3% of pupils at Calday Grange Grammar School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 1.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Calday Grange Grammar School received £7,978 and spent £7,663 for each of its 1,479 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £109,000 (-£74 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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What is Calday Grange Grammar School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Calday Grange Grammar School is Good, from an inspection in February 2025.

When was Calday Grange Grammar School last inspected by Ofsted?

Calday Grange Grammar School was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does Calday Grange Grammar School have?

Calday Grange Grammar School has 1,493 pupils on roll.

What age range does Calday Grange Grammar School cover?

Calday Grange Grammar School for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Calday Grange Grammar School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 63.7, and 93% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Calday Grange Grammar School?

Calday Grange Grammar School is at Grammar School Lane, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 8GG.