Primary school
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This school
URN 149493 · LAESTAB 344/2238 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Top school 2024/25
Expected standard, RWM: P91.4 of North West primaries (2024/25) · Higher standard, RWM: P94.6 (2024/25) · Ofsted report card 2026: nothing below Expected, safeguarding met.
Top 10% of North West primaries on Expected standard, RWM and top 25% on Higher standard, RWM (2024/25, cohort 30+), and Ofsted Good or better or a report card with nothing below Expected. Separate from the map plaque, which only tiers the school's North West rank by England results (Top 1/3/5/10/25%).
Against North West and Wirral
Track: North West's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = North West median; W = Wirral median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
North West state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the North West median, red = in North West's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with academies' accounts (AAR), same academic year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 2: % of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; ties broken by % at the higher standard. Ranked among 15,057 primaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against North West: North West state primaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against North West (10 = top 10%).
Pupils counted: 34 pupils (2024/25), every measure.
KS2 progress (reading), KS2 progress (writing), KS2 progress (maths): Not published for 2023/24 or 2024/25.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
You: the straight line from the centre of Heswall (the area you came from) to the school, not from your door; inside or outside compares it with the latest distance offered.
Inspections
OutstandingGoodReport cardUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Jan 2026 Report card, lowest Strong · Dec 2019 Remains Good · Jun 2015 Good · Nov 2011 Outstanding · Nov 2006 Good. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.
Report-card areas graded Exceptional or Strong standard, and Needs attention or Urgent improvement, out of the areas graded; Expected standard counts as neither. Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (255 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Parent View
Survey period 10 Nov 2025 to 6 Apr 2026, as at 6 Apr 2026. Source: Ofsted Parent View management information, OGL v3.0 (dataset). The school's own survey page is under Visit & links.
Ofsted changed the survey on 10 Nov 2025. The card shows the newest survey with 10 or more responses; an earlier survey is labelled and never mixed with the current one.
Share of the parents who answered, from Ofsted's published percentages: agree = strongly agree + agree; yes/no and overall-view questions show the share answering Yes or Positive. Where a question does not apply to every parent (Not applicable, I have not raised any concerns), agree is the share of the parents it applies to: strongly agree + agree divided by 100% minus that answer; the card says how many it did not apply to. Don't know stays in. Ofsted publishes a school only with 10 or more submissions. The questions changed on 10 November 2025: the card shows the current survey when the school has one, else the earlier survey (one academic year of submissions, the latest with 10 or more), never both.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 8.1, leadership 1, teaching assistants 5.99, support staff incl. TAs 9.82, whole workforce 17.92 (28 people), 10 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
All sources and licences (7)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
- Ofsted, Ofsted Parent View management information
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 1,379 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 10%
Against North West
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No exams 2019/20–21Not published 2021/22
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 44 | 30 |
| 2nd | 36 | 0 |
| 3rd | 15 | 0 |
Last distance offered: London only
1.3 km from Heswall · approx.: from the area's centre, not your door
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
Links open in a new tab. Close Knit counts the click, never what you do there.
Inspections · 2006–2026
- InclusionStrong
- AchievementStrong
- Curriculum and teachingStrong
- Attendance and behaviourStrong
- Leadership and governanceStrong
- Early yearsStrong
- Personal development and wellbeingStrong
- SafeguardingMet
- 2006Goodas predecessor
- 2011Outstandingas predecessor
- 2015Goodas predecessor
- 2019Remains Goodas predecessor
- 2026Lowest Strong
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 49.8%Boys 50.2%
83.5% full · 255 places
Parent View
As at 6 Apr 2026 · 73 responses (33.3% of pupils)
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 7.1
- Leadership 1
- Teaching assistants 6
- Other support 3.8
Teachers 8.1 FTE · Whole workforce 17.9 · 28 people
Financials · 2024/25
- +£154,000revenue reserve
- +£69,000in-year balance
Grants £5,648 · self-generated £338 · premises £379 per pupil
Multi-academy trust: CHESHIRE ACADEMIES TRUST (11 academies) · trust reserve £3,535,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it