Non-maintained special school · Sefton
Peterhouse School
- Special
- Ages 5–19
- Sixth form
Term dates
Non-maintained special schools set their own term dates. See the school's website.
Admissions
Places at special schools are usually arranged through an education, health and care (EHC) plan, agreed with the council.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 21 April 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Sixth form
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Strong standard
Safeguarding standards: met.
Previous inspection, 10 May 2023. Overall: Requires improvement
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Non-maintained special school
- Phase
- Special
- Ages
- 5–19
- Pupils
- 70 (capacity 80)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Phone
- 01704506682
- Address
- Preston New Road, Churchtown, Southport, PR9 8PA
- Website
- peterhouseschool.com
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.