Joshua Mangas
School Intel

Waterside Academy

  • Alternative provision
  • Academy alternative provision sponsor led
  • Ages 11 to 16

URN 150834 · Sefton · EVERTON MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

In Sefton

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

16 May 2023

Overall effectiveness
Inadequate

Ofsted category: Serious weaknesses.

Quality of education
Inadequate
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Full inspection (section 5)

Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Suspensions and permanent exclusions

Against Sefton and England, alternative provision.

Suspensions per 100 pupils

2024/25

270.11

Sefton
255.32
England
248.42

21.69 higher than England.

Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.

Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

2024/25

0.00

Sefton
0.00
England
0.30

0.30 lower than England.

Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.

Pupils

Against Sefton and England, alternative provision.

Eligible for free school meals

2024/25

66.7%

Sefton
67.0%
England
63.2%

3.5 percentage points higher than England.

Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals on census day in January. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.

SEN support

2024/25

27.6%

Sefton
27.7%
England
57.1%

29.5 percentage points lower than England.

Pupils receiving special educational needs support without an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.

Education, health and care plan

2024/25

9.2%

Sefton
13.8%
England
26.3%

17.1 percentage points lower than England.

Pupils with an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.

First language other than English

2024/25

0.0%

Sefton
0.0%
England
7.6%

7.6 percentage points lower than England.

Pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.

Teachers

Against Sefton and England, alternative provision.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

5.0

Sefton
7.1
England
7.3

2.3 lower than England.

Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.

Teacher sickness absence

2024/25

9.0 days

Sefton
5.9 days
England
5.0 days

4.0 days higher than England.

Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.

Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

See this school in the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool

About the school

Pupils on roll
84
Capacity
120
Type
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
Phase
Alternative provision
Age range
11 to 16
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Trust
EVERTON MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Opened
1 December 2024
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Bootle
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 2 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Daleacre Campus, Daleacre Drive, Liverpool, Merseyside, L30 2QQ

Website: www.watersideacademy.co.uk

Telephone: 01512575985

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Sources and corrections

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