St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–7 · 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 🔒
St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Liverpool for ages 2–7 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 5 November 2024. Liverpool has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery 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
- The 2026 Reception entry had 76 first-choice applications for 83 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 53rd highest of 106 Liverpool primary schools.
- For 2026 Reception entry, 75 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (1%) was not offered a place.
- 34.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 43.8% 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
- Margaret Road, Walton, Liverpool, L4 3RX
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Liverpool
- Pupils on roll
- 418 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 5 November 2024
Strengths
- “Staff greet them every day with a friendly morning welcome.”
- “Pupils learn and play happily with friends from many different cultures.”
- “They understand that everyone is treated equally.”
To improve
- “In other subjects, where this knowledge is less well defined, pupils’ learning is not as strong.”
- “However, this was not the case in 2024.”
- “Even so, a few pupils at the earliest stages of reading still find it difficult to blend the sounds that they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 February 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 76 first-preference applications, 83 offers in total, 75 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.
- St Francis de Sales Catholic Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Arnot St Mary CofE Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Gwladys Street Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Northcote Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Kirkdale St Lawrence CofE VA Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Florence Melly Community Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Four Oaks Community Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published