St Margaret Mary's Catholic Infant School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–7 · 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 Margaret Mary's Catholic Infant School is a primary school in Liverpool, Knowsley for ages 3–7 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 6 November 2024. Knowsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Margaret Mary's Catholic Infant 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 Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 27 of the 47 other Knowsley primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- There were 79 first-choice applications for 105 offers in Reception 2026, and 26 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of the 143 Reception 2026 applications, 66 (46%) came from families living outside Knowsley; 51 offers went to them.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 27.2% of pupils, against a middle figure of 37.4% across 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
- Pilch Lane, Liverpool, L14 0JG
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Knowsley
- Pupils on roll
- 375 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 6 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending St Margaret Mary’s Catholic Infant School.”
- “Positive and caring relationships are central to the work of the school.”
- “The school expects pupils to do well so that they are ready for the junior school when that time comes.”
To improve
- “However, for those pupils who find reading more difficult, the support in place is not helping them to catch up as speedily as they could.”
- “This hinders how well some of these pupils are able to use phonic strategies to develop reading fluency.”
- “Despite this, pupils’ understanding of stories that they had read was not as developed as it could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 December 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 79 first-preference applications, 105 offers in total, 79 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 Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
- Malvern Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Roby Park Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Park View Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Aloysius Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hope Primary School - A Joint Catholic and Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Huyton With Roby Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Blacklow Brow School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published