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Educational Institutions: Sefton

Answer

In the last five years to date, one school (St Ambrose Barlow Catholic College) has closed without replacement provision. There has been one amalgamation/merger (Hugh Baird College and South Sefton College) which resulted in the closure of South Sefton College.

There have also been five academy conversions in this time.

Details are outline in the table below.

Establishment Name	Reason Establishment Closed	Close Date
St Thomas Church of England Primary School	Academy Converter[1]	31/10/2017
Stanley High School	For Academy[2]	31/08/2017
Hillside High School	For Academy	28/02/2015
Litherland High School	For Academy	28/02/2015
St Ambrose Barlow Catholic College	Closure	31/08/2016
St Michael's Church of England High School	For Academy	31/10/2014
South Sefton College	Result of Amalgamation/Merger*	01/12/2017

This data was obtained from Get Information About Schools (GIAS). The responsibility for updating GIAS is shared between the Department for Education, local authorities and schools. It changes each day as data is removed and uploaded therefore we are unable to guarantee complete accuracy.

*Merged with Hugh Baird College

[1] ‘Academy Convertor’ is a previously Ofsted rated ‘outstanding’ maintained school that has voluntarily converted to an Academy.

[2] ‘For Academy’ refers to schools which have closed to become academies following the issue of a Direct Academy Order in response to an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted rating.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL5005

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Closures Further education Schools Sefton

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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