Stanley High School
Fleetwood Road, Southport, PR9 9TF
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- SOUTHPORT LEARNING TRUST
- Headteacher
- Miss Nicki Gregg
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Sponsor
- Southport Learning Trust
- Constituency
- Southport
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 750
- Pupils on roll
- 783
- URN
- 144618
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01704228940
About this school
Stanley High School is a secondary academy in Southport. It teaches children aged 11 to 16 and has 783 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. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 134 | 141 | 176 |
| Attainment 8 score | 41.7 | 39.1 | 40.6 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.45 -0.69 to -0.20 | -0.71 -0.95 to -0.47 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 28% | 26.2% | 30.7% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 54% | 45.4% | 52.8% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 87% | 76.6% | 76.7% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
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 Stanley High 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 | 41.7 | 37.4 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 39.1 | 36.9 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 40.6 | 35.4 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 10.4% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 12.1% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 9.2% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 814 |
| 2023/24 | 841 |
| 2024/25 | 836 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Stanley High School compares
Stanley High School ranked 13th of 17 secondary schools in Sefton for Attainment 8 in 2024/25. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 40% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 10% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 40.6 | 9.2% | 24.2% | 783 | — |
| Meols Cop High School | 44.7 | 8.2% | 31.2% | 916 | 2.1 miles |
| Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre | 41.8 | 9.1% | 31.9% | 822 | 3.2 miles |
| Greenbank High School | 50.6 | 9.4% | 19.7% | 1,025 | 3.9 miles |
| Birkdale High School | 51.9 | 7.7% | 21.8% | 936 | 4.5 miles |
| St Bede's Catholic High School, Lytham | 48.3 | 7.5% | 14.4% | 817 | 5.2 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 24.16%
- English as an additional language
- 7.5%
- Overall absence
- 9.2%
- Persistent absence
- 27.19%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Meols Cop High School2.1 miles
Secondary · Southport
-
Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre3.2 miles
Secondary · Southport
-
Greenbank High School3.9 miles
Secondary · Southport
-
Birkdale High School4.5 miles
Secondary · Southport
-
St Bede's Catholic High School, Lytham5.2 miles
Secondary · Lytham St Annes
Other schools in Southport
Stanley High School ranks 5th of the 5 ranked secondary schools in Southport.
- Birkdale High School Secondary
- Christ The King Catholic High School and Sixth Form Centre Secondary
- Greenbank High School Secondary
- Meols Cop High School Secondary
- 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 Stanley High School teach?
- Stanley High School teaches children aged 11 to 16. It is a secondary school in Southport.
- Who is the headteacher of Stanley High School?
- The headteacher of Stanley High School is Miss Nicki Gregg, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Stanley High School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Stanley High School, 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 Stanley High School?
- Stanley High School has 783 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 16.
- Is Stanley High School full?
- Stanley High School has capacity for 750 pupils and 783 on roll (104%), 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 Stanley High School a faith school?
- No. Stanley High School has no designated religious character.
- Is Stanley High School a selective school?
- No. Stanley High School is recorded as non-selective in the schools register.
- Who runs Stanley High School?
- Stanley High School is part of SOUTHPORT LEARNING TRUST. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- How have Stanley High School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 41.7 in 2022/23 and 40.6 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Stanley High School rank locally?
- Stanley High School ranked 13th of 17 secondary schools in Sefton for Attainment 8. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 40% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 10% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Stanley High School's absence rate?
- Stanley High School's overall absence rate is 9.2% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Stanley High School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Stanley High 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 10 July 2026.