Townfield Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · 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 🔒
Townfield Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Townfield 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
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, though places ran out in 1 of the 3 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 49 first-choice applications for 53 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 16.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 41.3% 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
- Townfield Lane, Prenton, Wirral, CH43 2LH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 487 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils run into the yard at the start of the school day and are warmly welcomed by staff.”
- “Pupils say they are well cared for by adults and each other in the school.”
- “If they have worries or problems, they trust staff will sort them out.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, they find it hard to use subject-specific knowledge to make links between what they already know and new learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 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) | 70% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 53 offers in total, 49 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.
- Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Hillside 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Fender Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Prenton Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodchurch CofE Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published