Merseyside's best secondary school has been revealed in our exclusive Real Schools Guide.
Wirral Grammar For Girls was crowned the best school in Merseyside and Halton in the guide compiled by the ECHO's own data team.
The Real Schools Guide 2019 provides a far more comprehensive picture than traditional league tables.
It takes into account 51 different data points. This includes not just GCSE results, and Attainment 8 scores, but also factors like Progress 8, pupil-teacher ratios and absence rates.
This year's results put Wirral Grammar For Girls on top as the best school in Merseyside displacing The Blue Coat School in Wavertree.
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The single-sex secondary ranked 26 nationally out of 3,166 schools.
It scored high on attainment (students reaching the expected or even the higher standards), attendance and outcome.
The school was founded in the 1930s and became an academy in 2011. It boasts former pupils Kate Robbins and Alison McGovern as ialumni.
The school has specialist statuses in languages, humanities and science.
Another Wirral school took second place - West Kirby Grammar is ranked 42nd in the country.
This year, Wirral Grammar For Girls plans to admit 180 girls unless the net capacity figure indicates otherwise.
Headteacher Elaine Cogan says on the school's website: "The school has topped local and national league tables for the past ten years.
"The school is proud of the varied clubs and societies that we provide. We have highly successful sports teams, orchestras, and choirs.
"Many subject departments organise visits both locally and abroad. Girls support many charities and there are thriving links with local businesses and the community."
The school has not been inspected by Ofsted since becoming an academy but was rated 'outstanding' when it was last assessed by the watchdog in 2008.
Inspectors said of the 1081-pupil school: "This is an outstanding school which provides a very high quality of care and education for its students.
"Parents and students widely support this view. The school's view of itself is accurate, identifying clearly its strengths but also honestly appraising and addressing its less successful areas."
The , now in its seventh year, has been praised by ministers and education experts alike.
Former schools minister David Laws called it "public-service journalism in the best tradition".
