Riverside Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.605 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Riverside Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 April 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Riverside 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 | 0.605 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 0.605 miles away, the 4th shortest of 19 Wirral primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- Reception 2026 had 21 first-choice applications for 22 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 12.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.6 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- In 2024/25, 43% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% 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
- Brighton Street, Wallasey, Wirral, CH44 6QW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 251 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 66.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils love coming to Riverside Primary School.”
- “The enthusiastic and dedicated staff ignite a passion for learning as soon as children join the school in the early years.”
- “Pupils enjoy the wealth of rich experiences that staff provide.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders have not identified carefully enough what pupils need to remember.”
- “At times, this hinders teachers when they design learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 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) | 43% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 21 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, Wallasey 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Egremont Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Somerville Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Kingsway Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Liscard Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Park Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published