The Priory Parish CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–11 · Birkenhead, 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 🔒
The Priory Parish CofE Primary School is a primary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 2–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 11 February 2025. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
The Priory Parish CofE 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
- 70.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 56.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2025, though places ran out in 2 of the 3 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 28 first-choice applications for 29 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- 2024/25: 46% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- The Priory Parish C of E Primary School, 1 Aberdeen Street, Birkenhead, CH41 4HS
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 179 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 70.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 11 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy learning and playing in this happy and nurturing school.”
- “They are caring towards each other.”
- “They show maturity when putting themselves in the shoes of those who they consider less fortunate than themselves.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes, links with prior learning are less clearly identified.”
- “Where this is the case, teachers do not ensure that pupils relate what they already know to what they have learned in the past.”
- “At times, in some subjects, pupils learn specific facts successfully but struggle to deepen their learning by making connections.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 March 2025 (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) | 46% | 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: 28 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 28 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.
- Cathcart Street Primary School 0.2 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodlands Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Portland 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kingsway Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Woodchurch Road Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published