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Clare Mount Specialist Sports College

Special schoolAges 11–19CommunitySixth form

Wallasey, CH46 1RA · Wirral local authority

Wallasey’s School Grade D better than 7% of towns in England

How full
461 pupils
115% of its 400 places
Free school meals
59%
59 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Clare Mount Specialist Sports College

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 461 pupils for 400 places
  • 59% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, May 2026: achievement exceptional, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CH46 1) sold for a median £192,000; Wallasey’s is £185,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 51 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Clare Mount Specialist Sports College beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 16.1

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Wirral avg 47.2

20304050607080England avg 47.3Clare Mount Specialist Sports College 16.1

Grade 5+ in English and maths 4%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Wirral avg 47%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Clare Mount Specialist Sports College 4%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
17
2024/25
19.8
2025/26
16.1

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-0.15: about 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).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 33 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
14.7England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
18.7England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths8%
England’s schools 66% · Wirral 66% · 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

410 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
1.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
56.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 26%Boys 74%
Its letter

No letter for Clare Mount Specialist Sports College

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.

Report card, inspection starting May 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExceptional
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionExceptional
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingExceptional
Leadership and governanceExceptional
Sixth formStrong standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, November 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Clare Mount Specialist Sports College

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

Home prices in CH46 1, the school’s postcode sector

Wallasey property prices →
£192,000
median sale, 97 sales in 36 months · Wallasey £185,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025CH46 1Wallasey
CH46 1Wallasey

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£290K
Semi-detached
£188K
Terraced
£170K
Flat
£105K
CH46 1Wallasey

Homes in CH46 1 sell for a little over Wallasey’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

18 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miND−D−CC−CC−CBD−D−DA+C+DC−CC+Clare Mount Specialist Spor…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Wallasey, CH46 1RA

Clare Mount Specialist Sports College: common questions

What is Clare Mount Specialist Sports College’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (May 2026) gave a report card: achievement exceptional, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Clare Mount Specialist Sports College?

Homes in its postcode sector, CH46 1, sold for a median £192,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (97 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; Wallasey’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.