Holy Cross Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided 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
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Holy Cross Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Liverpool for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 31 March 2023. Liverpool has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
Holy Cross 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for Reception 2026 was offered a place, as at 80 of the 109 other Liverpool primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 21 first-choice applications for 22 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 52% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Liverpool.
- There are 16.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.1 across 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
- Fontenoy Street, Liverpool, L3 2DU
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Liverpool
- Pupils on roll
- 192 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 31 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud and happy to attend this welcoming and harmonious school.”
- “A comment typical of those that pupils made to the inspector was ‘Every day, everyone comes in with a smile.”
- “The whole school community celebrates diversity of every kind, especially the rich variety of race, culture and religion represented in the school population.”
To improve
- “However, at times, in subjects for which the curriculum has recently been changed, strategies to develop pupils’ short- and long-term memory of essential knowledge are in their infancy.”
- “In these subjects, some pupils struggle to remember what they have learned recently and in the past.”
- “Consequently, they have difficulty understanding how what they have learned fits into larger ideas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 May 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) | 52% | 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, 22 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 Liverpool.
- The Trinity Catholic Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Faith Primary Academy 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pleasant Street Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Nicholas Catholic Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- The Beacon Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published