Woodlands Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Birkenhead, Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.387 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Woodlands Primary School is a primary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 May 2022. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Woodlands 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 2025 | 0.387 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.387 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 19 Wirral primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years, the biggest move being from 2024 to 2025, when it came nearer the school.
- Reception 2026 had 32 first-choice applications for 36 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wirral schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hollybank Road, Birkenhead, CH41 2SY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 314 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 58.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 May 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this school, where everyone is welcome.”
- “Warm relationships help them to feel happy, safe and valued.”
- “They speak positively about the staff in school and say there is always someone they can talk to if they are worried.”
To improve
- “However, pupils' attainment in reading and writing at the end of key stage 2 remains below national averages.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not develop the knowledge, skills and confidence that they need for the next stage of their education.”
- “Over time, pupils do not achieve well enough in tests at the end of key stage 2.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 2026 (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) | 53% | 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: 32 first-preference applications, 36 offers in total, 32 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 Wirral.
- St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Mersey Park Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Woodchurch Road Academy 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cathcart Street Primary School 0.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- The Priory Parish CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Well Lane Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Devonshire Park Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published