Mosspits Lane Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Liverpool
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Liverpool City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Mosspits Lane Primary School is a primary school in Liverpool for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 March 2023. Liverpool has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
Mosspits Lane 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, every applicant was offered a place, as was also the case at 80 of the 109 other Liverpool primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2026, Reception had 34 first-choice applications for 43 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 9 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 3rd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Liverpool that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Liverpool schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Mosspits Lane, Wavertree, Liverpool, L15 6UN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Liverpool
- Pupils on roll
- 391 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 March 2023
Strengths
- “Mosspits Lane Primary is a warm and welcoming school where pupils, and children in the early years, flourish.”
- “Pupils are proud to attend this school.”
- “They said that staff care for them well.”
To improve
- “However, some older pupils do not read as fluently as they should.”
- “This is because these pupils do not read regularly enough.”
- “At times, these pupils struggle to access the wider curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 May 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) | 75% | 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: 34 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 34 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 Liverpool.
- King David Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Christ The King Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wavertree Church of England School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady of Good Help Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Dovedale Community Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- King's Northway Primary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenbank Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published