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Liverpool Echo
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Nick Tyrrell

These are the Merseyside schools most likely to launch your child into a great university

The Merseyside school most likely to get your child into a top British university has been revealed.

Students at the city's Blue Coat School are the most likely in the city to end up attending one of the prestigious Russell Group universities.

Of the 547 pupils who've finished full education at the school since, 55% have gone on to go to attend universities within the group, which includes universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester and Liverpool .

Blue Coat has consistently ranked as one of the best schools in the region, with its students topping the GCSE results table in Merseyside last year.

Four schools from Wirral took the other places in Merseyside's top five, with Wirral Grammar School for Girls sending 47% of its students to Russell Group universities.

For Wirral Grammar School for boys the proportion was 42%, while four in ten students from West Kirkby Grammar went to the Russell Group.

Here are the best schools in Merseyside for getting their students into some of the UK's top universities

The Blue Coat School - 55% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Wirral Grammar School for Girls - 47% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Wirral Grammar School for Boys - 42% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

West Kirby Grammar School - 40% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Calday Grange Grammar School - 36% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

St Edward's College - 31% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Upton Hall School FCJ - 29% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Carmel College - 28% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

King David High School - 28% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

St Anselm's College, Birkenhead - 26% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Deyes High School, Maghull - 23% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

The Belvedere Academy, Liverpool - 23% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Range High School, Formby - 23% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Formby High School - 22% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

King George V College, Southport , - 20% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Sacred Heart Catholic College, Crosby   20% of pupils go to Russell Group universities

Blue Coat School

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