Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–11 · Birkenhead, Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.777 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 2–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 November 2022. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Our Lady and St Edward'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 | 0.777 mi |
| 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
- Free school meal eligibility is 39.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 70.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- For Reception 2025 the last child offered a place lived 0.777 miles from the school, 7th shortest of 19 Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 37 first-choice applications for 41 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 36% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Price Street, Birkenhead, CH41 8DU
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 436 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils and children in the early years arrive at Our Lady and St Edward’s Primary School happy and keen to start their day.”
- “Staff greet them with a welcoming smile.”
- “Pupils and staff have positive relationships with each other.”
To improve
- “Some pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), said that bullying happens from time to time.”
- “However, teachers are not as well equipped to check that pupils have retained their learning over a period of time.”
- “They are not spotting that some pupils do not remember key knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 February 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) | 36% | 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: 37 first-preference applications, 41 offers in total, 37 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 Portland 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Priory Parish CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cathcart Street Primary School 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Bidston Avenue Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kingsway Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Somerville Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Park Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published