Clare Mount Specialist Sports College
Birket Avenue, Leasowe, CH46 1RA
- Phase
- Special schools
- School type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 11 to 19
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mr Dan Keefe
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Wallasey
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 400
- Pupils on roll
- 461
- URN
- 105129
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01516069440
About this school
Clare Mount Specialist Sports College is a community special school in Leasowe. It teaches children aged 11 to 19 and has 461 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. Each area of the school's work is graded on a five-point scale, and safeguarding is judged separately.
- Inclusion
- Exceptional
- Curriculum and teaching
- Strong standard
- Achievement
- Exceptional
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Exceptional
- Leadership and governance
- Exceptional
- Post-16 provision
- Strong standard
- Safeguarding
- Met
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 40 | 40 | 43 |
| Attainment 8 score | 16.2 | 17.0 | 19.8 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.39 -0.85 to +0.07 | -0.15 -0.61 to +0.30 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 3% | 0% | 7% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 5% | 7.5% | 18.6% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.7 |
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 Clare Mount Specialist Sports College has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Wirral average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 16.2 | 39.4 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 17 | 37.3 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 19.8 | 37.4 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 10.8% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 11.4% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 11.2% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 285 |
| 2023/24 | 343 |
| 2024/25 | 410 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
Inspection history
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 56.22%
- English as an additional language
- 1.5%
- Overall absence
- 11.17%
- Persistent absence
- 32.79%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Orrets Meadow School0.4 miles
Academies · Wirral
-
The Observatory School0.8 miles
Special schools · Prenton
-
Wirral Wrap0.9 miles
Special schools · Birkenhead
-
Hayfield School0.9 miles
Special schools · Wirral
-
Wirral Hospitals' School1.8 miles
Academies · Wirral
Common questions
- What year groups does Clare Mount Specialist Sports College teach?
- Clare Mount Specialist Sports College teaches children aged 11 to 19. It is a special school in Leasowe.
- Who is the headteacher of Clare Mount Specialist Sports College?
- The headteacher of Clare Mount Specialist Sports College is Mr Dan Keefe, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Clare Mount Specialist Sports College last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Clare Mount Specialist Sports College, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Clare Mount Specialist Sports College?
- Clare Mount Specialist Sports College has 461 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 19.
- Is Clare Mount Specialist Sports College full?
- Clare Mount Specialist Sports College has capacity for 400 pupils and 461 on roll (115%), so it is at or above its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Clare Mount Specialist Sports College a faith school?
- No. Clare Mount Specialist Sports College has no designated religious character.
- What SEN provision does Clare Mount Specialist Sports College have?
- The schools register lists Clare Mount Specialist Sports College's special educational needs provision as: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty. Contact the school to discuss how it would support a particular child.
- How have Clare Mount Specialist Sports College's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 16.2 in 2022/23 and 19.8 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What is Clare Mount Specialist Sports College's absence rate?
- Clare Mount Specialist Sports College's overall absence rate is 11.2% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Clare Mount Specialist Sports College's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Clare Mount Specialist Sports College'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 15 July 2026.