St Edward's College is a co-educational Catholic school with academy status in the UK located in the Liverpool suburb of West Derby.

[citation needed] The school is situated on the south side of Queen's Drive (A5058), a half-mile east of the A57.

The North Liverpool Extension Line railway once passed to the rear of the school, next to the playing fields.

The Institute was situated in premises in Hope Street, near the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, and was formally opened by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman, who had been appointed Archbishop of Westminster in 1850.

Some years prior to the Catholic Institute, in 1848, another school had been established in the city under the name of St Edward's College.

The building was named after the city of Santo Domingo, founded in the Caribbean by Bartholomew Columbus in 1496, later capital of the Dominican Republic, which was where George Campbell, a privateer who in 1763-64 was Mayor of Liverpool, had made his fortune.

Its junior section, Runnymede St Edward's, did not join the state sector and instead became a private school but still maintains links with the College and continues to occupy the campus next door.

The resignation was triggered by a poor Ofsted report, in which the college had been downgraded from an Excellent to a Requires Improvement, as well as pending National Education Union action.

The site at Sandfield Park consisted of two Victorian mansions, Runnymede and St Clare's, each of which had substantial grounds.

The John Morgan Sports Complex and Dining Hall and Performing Arts facilities were added in the 1990s.

The turn of the century saw the complete refurbishment of one of the original properties, St Clare, into the new Upper School Centre.

Its affiliated prep school Runnymede St Edward's educates younger choristers.

Since then, the school has produced rugby stars such as England internationals Mike Slemen, Ted Rudd and Kyran Bracken.