Devonshire Park Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Birkenhead, Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Devonshire Park Primary School is a primary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 6 November 2024. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Devonshire Park 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- There are 15 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.6 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- Every applicant for Reception in 2025 was offered a place, though places ran out in 2 of the 3 earlier years with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 32 first-choice applications for 33 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 47% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% 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
- Temple Road, Birkenhead, CH42 9JX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 413 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 6 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy being part of this caring and welcoming school.”
- “They know that each member of staff cares about them as individuals.”
- “Many pupils, and their parents and carers, spoke of the loving school family.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, the school’s systems for checking what pupils know and remember over time are less effective.”
- “This means that the school is unsure of what gaps pupils have in their long-term memory, and in turn, these gaps are not promptly addressed.”
- “However, this is not consistently replicated in terms of early writing.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 December 2024 (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) | 47% | 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, 33 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 Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodchurch Road Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mersey Park Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bedford Drive Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Well Lane Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published