Grove Street Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · 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 🔒
Grove Street Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 4 October 2022. Wirral and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Grove Street 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 2022 | 🔒 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
- In 2024/25, 30% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026, there were 28 first-choice applications for 29 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 59.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 29.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- The school has 9.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
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
- Grove Street Primary School, Grove Street, New Ferry, Wirral, CH62 5BA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 312 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 59.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 9.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 4 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils thoroughly enjoy attending this caring and harmonious school.”
- “Staff make sure that pupils are happy and safe.”
- “Adults forge strong relationships with pupils.”
To improve
- “Despite the overall strengths in how teachers check pupils’ learning, in a minority of subjects in the wider curriculum, leaders are still reviewing and improving their assessment systems.”
- “In these curriculum areas, leaders’ approaches to assessment do not allow teachers to identify in sufficient depth what pupils know or understand.”
- “This hinders some pupils from learning all that they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 2022 (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) | 30% | 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: 28 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 28 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 John's Catholic Infant School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Junior School 0.4 mi Good
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Church Drive Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Brackenwood Infant School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Town Lane Infant School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Rock Ferry Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published