St Anne's Catholic 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 🔒
St Anne's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 2–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 26 March 2025. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
St Anne'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
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant for a Reception place was offered one in 2025, but places ran out, with a last distance published, in 1 of the 3 earlier years.
- For 2026 Reception entry, there were 21 first-choice applications for 23 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 27th lowest of 83 Wirral primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place for 2026, and 2 offers went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
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
- Highfield South, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, CH42 4NE
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 247 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 44.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 26 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy the friendly atmosphere at St Anne’s Catholic Primary School.”
- “They receive a warm welcome from staff at the start of each day and have highly positive relationships with the adults at the school.”
- “Most pupils say that they feel happy and safe because of the nurture and care that they receive.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils’ recall is not secure enough.”
- “This is because staff do not have the precise information about the essential knowledge that pupils need to learn.”
- “As a result, there are key gaps in pupils’ knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 May 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) | 61% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 21 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.
- St John's Catholic Junior School 0.4 mi Good
- St John's Catholic Infant School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Rock Ferry Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grove Street Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Bedford Drive Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Well Lane Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Town Lane Infant School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published