Cathcart 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 🔒
Cathcart Street Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 26 March 2024. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Cathcart 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 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, 26% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- For 2026 Reception entry, there were 26 first-choice applications for 29 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 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.
- 77.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 56.7% 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
- Dover Close, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41 3JY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 213 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 77.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 26 March 2024
Strengths
- “Staff take the time to greet pupils warmly at the start of the school day.”
- “This helps pupils feel welcome.”
- “Some pupils benefit from an adapted, calm and connected start to the day.”
To improve
- “However, too often, some pupils, including children in the early years, do not understand or follow these expectations well enough.”
- “This is because some staff do not consistently apply the school's approach to managing behaviour.”
- “As a result, some pupils lose concentration and call out.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 September 2026 (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) | 26% | 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: 26 first-preference applications, 29 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.
- The Priory Parish CofE Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Woodlands Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Kingsway Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Portland 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Woodchurch Road Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published