Belle Vale Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Liverpool
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Liverpool City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Belle Vale Community Primary School is a primary school in Liverpool for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 September 2023. Liverpool has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
Belle Vale Community 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, every applicant was offered a place, as at 80 of the 109 other Liverpool primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 31 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 69% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Liverpool.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Liverpool schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Besford Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, L25 2QF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Liverpool
- Pupils on roll
- 272 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 44.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Belle Vale Community Primary School.”
- “Staff have high expectations of what every pupil can and should achieve.”
- “Pupils said that staff help them to live out the school’s motto of ‘learning together, being our best’.”
To improve
- “However, in one or two subjects, the curriculums are less well developed.”
- “The content of these subject curriculums is not as ambitious as it should be.”
- “The school has not ensured that these curriculums cover all that pupils need to know to support future learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 2023 (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) | 69% | 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: 26 first-preference applications, 31 offers in total, 26 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 Liverpool.
- Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Netherley Park Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Woolton Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Childwall Valley Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bishop Martin Church of England Primary School, Woolton 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Much Woolton Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Paschal Baylon Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published