St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–11 · 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 🔒
St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 2–11 (voluntary aided school). Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
St Michael and All Angels 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
- The latest Ofsted inspection, on 25 November 2025, gave no single grade; the previous graded outcome, on 24 May 2016, was Good.
- Reception 2026 entry drew 27 first-choice applications for 29 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 15.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.1 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
- New Hey Road, Upton, Wirral, CH49 5LE
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 208 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 25 November 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at St Michael and All Angels use the school's values to treat each other with kindness and respect.”
- “Staff promote positive behaviours consistently well to ensure that it is a comfortable, nurturing environment.”
- “For example, children in the early years receive a warm welcome at the start of the day.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, such as writing, pupils’ achievement could be strengthened further.”
- “Although pupils acquire important knowledge and skills well, there is some variation in the quality and presentation of their written work between classes, particularly in key stage 1.”
- “However, a minority of pupils still miss too much of their learning because they are persistently absent.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 January 2026 (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: 27 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 27 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.
- Fender Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Townfield Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodchurch CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Prenton Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Hillside 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thingwall Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published