St. Anselm’s College is a Boys’ Voluntary Aided Grammar School, serving the Catholic community of Wirral and North Cheshire.

In recent years, the Governors have admitted 4 forms of entry. The roll in September 1999 is 788 pupils, with 146 in the Sixth Form. They are taught by a full-time staff of 44. The maximum notional roll of the school will be 820, with 160 in the Sixth Form.

The College was established in 1933, at the invitation of the Bishop of Shrewsbury, by the Congregation of Christian Brothers’ Trustees, a lay religious order founded in Ireland by Blessed Edmund Rice in 1802.

In 1946 it became a Direct Grant Grammar School and operated as such until 1975, when the Trustees opted for Independence to continue to provide single sex selective education.

The 1993 Education Act gave the Trustees the opportunity to re-enter the Maintained Sector and so, once again, offer parents the choice of a Catholic Grammar School education for their sons, irrespective of their means to pay. In 1995, the school became one of the first Independent schools to re-enter the Maintained Sector.

In September 1999, the school has become Voluntary Aided in line with the statutes of the 1998 Education Act.