Great Meols Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.907 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Great Meols Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 15 November 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Great Meols 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 | 1.907 mi |
| 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, 75% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 ranked 2nd highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral that have results.
- In 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.907 miles away, the 5th longest of 19 Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2025 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
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
- Elwyn Road, Meols, Wirral, CH47 7AP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 450 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 15 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy attending Great Meols Primary School.”
- “They said that the school is a great place to be and they love spending time with their friends.”
- “Pupils understand and follow the school’s values of compassion and teamwork well.”
To improve
- “In one or two subjects, however, the curriculum does not fully identify the essential knowledge that pupils need to know.”
- “From time to time, this prevents some pupils from acquiring the depth of knowledge of which they are capable.”
- “Furthermore, some teachers do not ensure that pupils apply their knowledge of spellings and grammar consistently well across subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 December 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: 47 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 47 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.
- Hoylake Holy Trinity CofE Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lingham Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Black Horse Hill Infant School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Black Horse Hill Junior School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Moreton Christ Church CofE Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Eastway Primary School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- West Kirby Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published