Pensby High School for Girls is an all-girls secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 with specialist Business & Enterprise and Science College status. It is located immediately north of Heswall on some of the highest ground in the Wirral Peninsula.

The school adjoins Pensby High School for Boys

Pensby Sports College

Pensby Sports College is a single sex boys' secondary school in Pensby. The town is located between Irby and Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, England....

, known as "Pensby Sports College", to which it is federated - allowing joint staffing/ teaching across the two schools whilst the pupils of each school (in years 7 to 11 but not the Sixth Form) remain separate. There is also a collaboration with Hilbre High School

Hilbre High School

Hilbre High School is a co-educational state secondary school located in West Kirby, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. The school holds Humanities College status and is administered by the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral....

 for jointly teaching the Sixth Form.

The current roll (2010/11) is 811, including a sixth form

Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...

of 101 pupils.