Merefield School
Westminster Drive, Southport, PR8 2QZ
This school is closed (it closed in September 2025).
It was replaced by Merefield School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 3 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Miss Joanne Sharpe
- SEN provision
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 107
- Pupils on roll
- 110
- URN
- 104979
- Local authority
- Sefton
About this school
Merefield School was a community special school in Southport. It taught children aged 3 to 19 and had 110 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Merefield School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | - | 0% | - |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | - | 0% | - |
| Expected standard in reading | - | 0% | - |
| Expected standard in maths | - | 0% | - |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | - | 0% | - |
| Average scaled score in reading | - | - | - |
| Average scaled score in maths | - | - | - |
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| Attainment 8 score | - | - | - |
| Progress 8 score | - | - | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | - | - | - |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | - | - | - |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | - | - | - |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | - | - | - |
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 Merefield 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 | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 13% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 10.5% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 7.3% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 104 |
| 2023/24 | 103 |
| 2024/25 | 110 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 54.35%
- English as an additional language
- 9.1%
- Overall absence
- 7.27%
- Persistent absence
- 20.45%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Merefield School0.0 miles
Academies · Southport
-
Arden College4.0 miles
Other types
-
Educ8 Southport4.3 miles
Special schools · Southport
-
Scarisbrick Hall School5.3 miles
Independent schools
-
Acre View Primary School5.7 miles
Special schools · Liverpool
Other schools in Southport
- Educ8 Southport Special schools
- Merefield School Academies
- Peterhouse School Special schools
- Presfield High School and Specialist College Special schools
- Crossens Nursery School Nursery
- Ainsdale St John's Church of England Primary School Primary
- Banks Methodist School Primary
- Banks St Stephen's CofE School Primary
- Birkdale Primary School Primary
- Bishop David Sheppard Church of England Primary School Primary
- Churchtown Primary School Primary
- Farnborough Road Infant School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Merefield School teach?
- Merefield School taught children aged 3 to 19. It was a special school in Southport.
- Has Merefield School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Merefield 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 Merefield School?
- Merefield School had 110 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 19.
- What are Merefield School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Merefield 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 1 October 2025.