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Newfield School

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Crosby, L23 4TG · Sefton local authority

Crosby’s School Grade C+ better than 39% of towns in England

How full
129 pupils
136% of its 95 places
Free school meals
74%
74 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Newfield School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 129 pupils for 95 places
  • 74% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (L23 4) sold for a median £399,995; Crosby’s is £248,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 9 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Newfield beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 13.8

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Sefton avg 43.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3Newfield 13.8

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Sefton avg 39%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Newfield 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
5.6
2024/25
10.1
2025/26
13.8

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-2.11: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Sefton 61% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

128 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
77.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 10%Boys 90%
Its letter

No letter for Newfield School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, December 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Newfield School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in L23 4, the school’s postcode sector

Crosby property prices →
£399,995
median sale, 104 sales in 36 months · Crosby £248,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K2010201520202025L23 4Crosby
L23 4Crosby

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£435K
Semi-detached
£325K
Terraced
£255K
L23 4Crosby

Homes in L23 4 sell for well over Crosby’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

22 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNDC+B−AC−C−D−C+B+BDA−DB−C−BB−D−B+D−DNewfield School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Crosby, L23 4TG

Newfield School: common questions

What is Newfield School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (December 2023).

How much do houses cost near Newfield School?

Homes in its postcode sector, L23 4, sold for a median £399,995 over the 36 months to August 2026 (104 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Crosby’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.