St Peter's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–11 · Prenton, 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 🔒
St Peter's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Prenton, Wirral for ages 2–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 April 2022. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
St Peter's Catholic 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
- For Reception entry in 2025, every applicant was offered a place, as at 64 of the 83 other Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 20 first-choice applications for 20 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 2024/25: 48% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral that have results.
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 Peter's Way, Noctorum, St. Peters Rc Primary School, Prenton, CH43 9QR
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 216 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 73.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 April 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils, and their parents and carers, would readily recommend St Peter’s Catholic Primary School to others.”
- “These pupils are warmly welcomed into the school community.”
- “They said that they feel safe and happy in school.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, the curriculum is not organised as clearly.”
- “Subject leaders have not ordered the important knowledge that they want pupils to learn carefully enough.”
- “Consequently, teachers are not clear about what content to deliver and when.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 May 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) | 48% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 20 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.
- Co-op Academy Hillside 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Fender Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Manor Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Townfield Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodchurch CofE Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Upton 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published