New Brighton Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Wallasey, 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 🔒
New Brighton Primary School is a primary school in Wallasey, Wirral for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 October 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
New Brighton 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
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception 2025, as at 64 of the 83 other Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 75 first-choice applications for 77 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2024/25 reading, writing and maths, it ranked 3rd highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral that have results.
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
- Vaughan Road, Wallasey, CH45 1LH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 581 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “This includes those pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
- “All pupils, including those in the specially resourced provisions for pupils with SEND (specially resourced provisions), value the strong relationships that they have with adults in school.”
To improve
- “In one or two subjects, the school has not ensured that staff are clear enough about the knowledge that pupils should learn.”
- “In these subjects, staff are sometimes less well equipped to design the most appropriate activities to help pupils to learn new ideas.”
- “On occasion, this means that some pupils, including a few pupils with SEND, do not achieve all that they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 November 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) | 58% | 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: 75 first-preference applications, 77 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 Wirral.
- SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mount Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Liscard Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St George's Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Egremont Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Park Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Somerville Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published