Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 January 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Sacred Heart 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
- In 2024/25, 56% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- At the higher standard in reading, writing and maths, the 2024/25 figure was 0% of pupils (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 drew 20 first-choice applications for 21 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 22.3% of pupils, against a middle figure of 62.7% 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
- Danger Lane, Moreton, Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Wirral, CH46 8UG
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Catholic
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 273 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils live out the school’s values of care, courtesy and commitment in all that they do.”
- “They are proud to attend this welcoming school.”
- “Staff nurture pupils to develop their confidence and self-esteem.”
To improve
- “However, in a minority of curriculum areas, leaders are in the process of refining their systems to assess pupils’ learning.”
- “In these subjects, teachers’ use of assessment is inconsistent.”
- “As a result, some teachers do not use the assessment information that they have collected to pinpoint exactly what pupils know and remember.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 March 2023 (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) | 56% | 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, 21 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.
- Eastway Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Chapelhill Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Moreton Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Lingham Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Leasowe Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Castleway Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bidston Village CofE (Controlled) Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published