Overchurch 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 🔒
Overchurch Infant School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 3–7 (community school). Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Overchurch 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 2025, every applicant for a Reception place was offered one, as was the case at 64 of the 83 other Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in 2 of the 3 earlier Reception years with a published outcome, though not in 2025.
- For 2026 Reception entry, there were 72 first-choice applications for 89 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 6th lowest of 83 Wirral primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place for 2026, and 17 offers went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
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
- Moreton Road, Upton, Wirral, CH49 4NS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 269 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 14 April 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils begin their education journey at Overchurch Infant School with enthusiasm.”
- “They arrive each day eager to learn and describe the school as a happy, friendly place.”
- “They attend regularly and enjoy learning alongside one another in a happy, friendly environment.”
To improve
- “Although improvements have been made, leaders recognise that some pupils’ writing across the curriculum is not consistently of a high enough quality.”
- “However, some checks leaders make do not always provide sufficiently precise information to support further improvement.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 June 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 72 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 72 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.
- Overchurch Junior School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Upton 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Moreton Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Chapelhill Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Manor Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brookdale Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published