State-fundedFurther education · Sefton · L20 7EW
Secondary with sixth form · ages 14–99
Hugh Baird College is a state-funded school in Sefton, teaching pupils aged 14 to 99.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | — | -2.530th percentile | -2.660th percentile | -2.600th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | — | 15.74th percentile | 10.83rd percentile | 13.24th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2022–23 was -2.53 — well below average, the 0th percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 2.53 of a grade per subject lower than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.
The 95% confidence interval for 2022–23 runs -2.83 to -2.23. That sits entirely below zero, so the below-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has risen in each of the years shown (2021–22 to 2022–23), which is a more convincing signal than any single year.
Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.
A school can post a respectable overall score while coasting one group and carrying the average on another. The row that matters to you is the one your own child sits in.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower starters | — | -2.00 | -2.27 | -2.13 |
| Middle starters | — | -2.73 | -2.95 | -2.84 |
| Higher starters | — | -2.92 | — | -2.92 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
Not published — this school has no attendance figures in the Department for Education data.
Not inspected, or no grade in the published data
Around half of schools currently have no grade here — usually recently opened schools, or academies whose last full inspection was under a predecessor URN.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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