Town Lane Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · 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 🔒
Town Lane Infant School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 7 November 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Town Lane Infant 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
- Ofsted rated the school Outstanding on 7 November 2023, while the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral have 6 Good, 1 Outstanding and 1 with no current grade.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, though places ran out in 2 of the 3 earlier years with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 78 first-choice applications for 80 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 9.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 24.9% 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
- Town Lane, Bebington, Wirral, CH63 8LD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 322 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 7 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish at Town Lane Infant School.”
- “They are happy and love to learn.”
- “The school is aspirational for all pupils, including children in the early years.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 78 first-preference applications, 80 offers in total, 78 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.
- Higher Bebington Junior School 0.3 mi Good
- Brackenwood Junior School 0.5 mi Good
- Brackenwood Infant School 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Infant School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Junior School 0.6 mi Good
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Grove Street Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published