Merchant Taylors' Girls' School
Liverpool Road, Liverpool, L23 5SP
This school is closed (it closed in September 2025).
- Phase
- Independent schools
- School type
- Other independent school
- Ages
- 4 to 18
- Gender
- Girls
- Religious character
- None
- Headteacher
- Mr Graham Ion
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Constituency
- Bootle
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 1,050
- Pupils on roll
- 558
- URN
- 104974
- Local authority
- Sefton
About this school
Merchant Taylors' Girls' School was a girls' independent school in Liverpool. It taught children aged 4 to 18 and had 558 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Merchant Taylors' Girls' School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in September 1980, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 67 | 61 | 126 |
| Attainment 8 score | 51.9 | 50.1 | 24.8 |
| Progress 8 score | - | - | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 4.6 | 4.6 | 1.4 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Merchant Taylors' Girls' School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Sefton average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 51.9 | 37.4 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 50.1 | 36.9 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 24.8 | 35.4 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 631 |
| 2023/24 | 656 |
| 2024/25 | 558 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 0%
- Pupils with an EHC plan
- 1
- Pupils on SEN support
- 152
Location
Nearby schools
-
St. Mary's College0.1 miles
Independent schools · Liverpool
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Olsen House School0.1 miles
Special schools · Liverpool
-
Merchant Taylors' Schools0.4 miles
Independent schools · Liverpool
-
Crosby High School0.6 miles
Special schools · Liverpool
-
Jigsaw Primary Pupil Referral Unit1.2 miles
Local authority maintained schools · Liverpool
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Common questions
- What year groups does Merchant Taylors' Girls' School teach?
- Merchant Taylors' Girls' School taught children aged 4 to 18. It was an independent school in Liverpool.
- Has Merchant Taylors' Girls' School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Merchant Taylors' Girls' School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Merchant Taylors' Girls' School?
- Merchant Taylors' Girls' School had 558 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 18.
- How have Merchant Taylors' Girls' School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 51.9 in 2022/23 and 24.8 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Merchant Taylors' Girls' School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Merchant Taylors' Girls' School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 2 September 2025.