Holy Cross Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 20 October 2022. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Holy Cross 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
- 76.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 57.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- Reception 2026 drew 20 first-choice applications for 23 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 expected-standard figure in reading, writing and maths was the highest 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
- Gautby Road, Bidston, Birkenhead, CH41 7DU
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 185 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 76.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be part of this calm, caring, happy and purposeful school.”
- “Staff and pupils give those new to the school, including pupils who have recently arrived from other countries, a warm ‘Holy Cross welcome’.”
- “Pupils rise to staff’s very high expectations of behaviour.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not attend school regularly enough and so do not reach their full potential.”
- “However, in a number of subjects, teachers do not systematically teach the key vocabulary needed for each topic.”
- “Consequently, at times, some pupils struggle to explain what they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 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) | 73% | 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, 23 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.
- Bidston Avenue Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Portland 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bidston Village CofE (Controlled) Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Manor Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Park Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Leasowe Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published