St Werburgh'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 Werburgh'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 19 September 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
St Werburgh'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
- Reception 2026 drew 24 first-choice applications for 24 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer and the 17th highest of 83 Wirral primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 44% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- There are 14.7 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.8 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
- Park Grove, Birkenhead, CH41 2TD
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 210 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 55.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 September 2023
Strengths
- “Parents and carers, staff and pupils speak positively about St Werburgh’s Catholic Primary School.”
- “Staff know pupils and their families well.”
- “Staff provide support that enables pupils to feel safe and secure in school.”
To improve
- “However, historic weaknesses in the curriculum mean that the improvements in pupils’ learning are not reflected in published information about pupils’ achievement at the end of key stage 2.”
- “However, in a small number of subjects, the school has not ordered learning to help pupils build their knowledge as well as they could.”
- “As a result, some pupils are hindered when they encounter new subject content.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 November 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) | 44% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 24 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.
- Woodlands Primary School 0.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodchurch Road Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mersey Park Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cathcart Street Primary School 0.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- The Priory Parish CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Devonshire Park Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published