The Belvedere School

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The Belvedere School is a private school for girls, at Princes Park in Liverpool.

It was founded in 1890 and is situated overlooking Princes Park. The Belvedere School now has over 500 pupils aged 3-18 and, due to recent events, is due to become the country's first City Academy. The school is part of the Girls' Day School Trust and continues to be a thriving school in the heart of Liverpool's community.

The school focuses on both academic achieve and extra-cirricular activities, with many pupils playing for the county and international rounders teams. The Belvedere School was rated the best school in Liverpool by the official league tables having gained 100% pass rate at GCSE in 2006. Every year nearly all the Sixth Form students move on to university with between 3-4 pupils gaining entrance to Oxford and Cambridge.

[edit] The Open Access Scheme

This unique scheme was set up by the Sutton Trust, in partnership with the Girls' Day School Trust, funds girls who would otherwise not be able to attend the school due to financial difficulty. There is no limit on the number of funded places, meaning that girls admitted into the school are chosen solely on academic potential. In the first three years of the scheme 71% of the entrants are having all or part of their fees paid, with 32% having their fees fully paid through the Open Access Scheme. The first "access girls" entered the school in September 2000 and achieved record results in their GCSEs, taken Summer 2005.hhh