St Aidan's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Liverpool, Knowsley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Knowsley Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Aidan's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Liverpool, Knowsley for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Knowsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Aidan's Catholic Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2026, as at 27 of the 47 other Knowsley primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 21 first-choice applications for 26 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 5 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 48% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Knowsley.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Knowsley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Adswood Road, Huyton, Liverpool, L36 7XR
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Knowsley
- Pupils on roll
- 220 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 3 February 2026
Strengths
- “St Aidan's is a nurturing and inclusive school.”
- “Pupils feel happy and secure because staff provide high levels of care.”
- “This includes pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who face other barriers to their learning or wellbeing.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not attend regularly.”
- “This makes it harder for them to achieve well.”
- “However, the achievement of older pupils is too variable across the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 April 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 48% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 21 first-preference applications, 26 offers in total, 21 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Knowsley.
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Columba's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Huyton With Roby Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willow Tree Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Gabriel's CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Knowsley Lane Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Aloysius Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sylvester Primary Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published