Thornton Hough Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Thornton Hough Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 13 February 2024. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Thornton Hough 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
- In 2024/25, 100% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 27% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026, there were 33 first-choice applications for 27 offers; 26 offers went to first-choice families, and 7 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, but places ran out, with a last distance published, in 2 of the 3 earlier years.
- 5.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 14.1% 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
- St George's Way, Thornton Hough, Wirral, CH63 1JJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 185 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 13 February 2024
Strengths
- “This is a happy school where pupils excel.”
- “Parents and carers, staff and pupils praise its ‘family feeling’.”
- “In addition, pupils gain a first-rate introduction to their lives as responsible, respectful citizens of modern Britain.”
To improve
- “Children in the early years learn well, but not as impressively as older pupils.”
- “This is because the school’s thinking about some of the knowledge that it will teach children in early years is less well developed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 March 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) | 100% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 26 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.
- Barnston Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Heswall Primary School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Poulton Lancelyn Primary School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gayton Primary School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stanton Road Primary School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brackenwood Junior School 2.3 mi Good
- Brookhurst Primary School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Higher Bebington Junior School 2.4 mi Good