Millfields Church of England (Controlled) Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled 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 🔒
Millfields Church of England (Controlled) Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 26 March 2024. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Millfields Church of England (Controlled) 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 had 5 first-choice applications for 5 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 43% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%); 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, as at 64 of the 83 other Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- In January 2026, 65.3% of pupils were eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral is 18.8%.
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
- Willington Avenue, Eastham, Wirral, CH62 9EB
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 72 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 65.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 26 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy belonging to the Millfields’ family.”
- “They said that this helps them to feel cared for and happy.”
- “Pupils live by the school’s values.”
To improve
- “However, some teachers do not deliver the curriculum well enough to ensure that pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), achieve as well as they should.”
- “However, the school has not ensured that teachers have the expertise to design lesson activities that support pupils to know and remember more over time.”
- “This means that some pupils find it difficult to build on prior learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 May 2024 (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) | 43% | 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: 5 first-preference applications, 5 offers in total, 5 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.
- Heygarth Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Raeburn Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Brookhurst Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Christ The King Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mendell Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Woodslee 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Poulton Lancelyn Primary School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stanton Road Primary School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published