Heygarth Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Heygarth Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 3 February 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Heygarth 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
- For Reception 2025, every applicant was offered a place, as at 64 of the 83 other Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in 1 of the 3 earlier Reception years with a published outcome, before every applicant was offered a place in 2025.
- For 2026 Reception, there were 40 first-choice applications for 41 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 4% 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
- Heygarth Road, Eastham, Wirral, CH62 8AG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 431 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 3 February 2023
Strengths
- “Heygarth Primary School is friendly and welcoming.”
- “Pupils enjoy the recognition that they receive when they model these values.”
- “They are keen to celebrate the rewards that they receive and this makes them feel happy.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, some staff do not check that pupils’ earlier learning is secure before moving on to new content.”
- “This hinders how well some pupils learn in these subjects.”
- “However, leaders have not ensured that a small number of pupils receive sufficient opportunities to secure some of the sounds that they need to read fluently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 March 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) | 65% | 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: 40 first-preference applications, 41 offers in total, 40 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.
- Raeburn Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Millfields Church of England (Controlled) Primary School 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Brookhurst Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Christ The King Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mendell Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Woodslee 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Poulton Lancelyn Primary School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stanton Road Primary School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published