Summerhill Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Liverpool, Sefton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.087 miles
Published by Sefton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Summerhill Primary School is a primary school in Liverpool, Sefton for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Sefton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Summerhill 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 | 2.087 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2015 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 76% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sefton.
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered was 2.087 miles, 3rd longest of 18 Sefton primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.83 miles).
- Reception 2026 drew 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 23 offers went to first-choice families and 10 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2026, 27 of the 105 Reception applications (26%) came from families living outside Sefton, and 5 offers went to them.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sefton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Poverty Lane, Maghull, Summerhill Primary School, Liverpool, L31 3DT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Sefton
- Pupils on roll
- 215 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, and their parents and carers, would readily recommend Summerhill Primary School to others.”
- “Parents appreciate how staff go out of their way to meet their children’s needs.”
- “Pupils feel safe and cared for in school.”
To improve
- “Leaders’ curriculum thinking is not as developed in a small number of other subjects.”
- “They have not identified the knowledge that they want pupils to learn at each stage in sufficient detail.”
- “For example, teachers are unclear what specific vocabulary pupils need to know to help them to make sense of future learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 June 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) | 76% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 23 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 Sefton.
- St George's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- St Andrews Church of England Primary School, Maghull 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hudson Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Northway Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas Church of England Primary School, Lydiate 1.3 mi Outstanding
- Green Park Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Melling Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John Bosco Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good