Black Horse Hill Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · 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 🔒
Black Horse Hill Infant School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 February 2024. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Black Horse Hill Infant 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 Reception 2025 every applicant was offered a place, as at 64 of the 83 other Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 26 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 23.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 10.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- There are 17.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 23.4 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
- Saughall Massie Road, West Kirby, Wirral, CH48 6DR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 102 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy being part of this caring and welcoming school family.”
- “Each morning, they arrive at school happy and ready to learn.”
- “Pupils know that staff look after them and help with any problems that they may have.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, in a small number of subjects, some staff do not make best use of assessment information when designing new learning.”
- “This means that, on occasion, pupils do not get enough opportunities to deepen their knowledge in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 26 first-preference applications, 26 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.
- Black Horse Hill Junior School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- West Kirby Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- West Kirby St Bridget's CofE Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hoylake Holy Trinity CofE Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greasby Infant School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Our Lady of Pity Catholic Primary and Nursery School 1.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Greasby Junior School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Great Meols Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published