Church Drive Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.951 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Church Drive Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 June 2023. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Church Drive 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 | 0.951 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 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.951 miles away, the 9th longest of 19 Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years; the 2025 figure was further from the school than in 2024 and about the same as in 2023.
- In 2026, Reception had 46 first-choice applications for 45 offers; 43 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 69% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 10% reached the higher standard (England 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
- Church Drive, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5EF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 323 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy school and say that they feel safe.”
- “They receive a high quality of care from staff.”
- “Staff know pupils and their families well.”
To improve
- “In these subjects, teachers sometimes do not choose the most appropriate activities to enable pupils to learn and remember essential knowledge sufficiently well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 July 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) | 69% | 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: 46 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 43 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.
- Grove Street Primary School 0.5 mi Good 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 0.7 mi Good
- Brackenwood Infant School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Stanton Road Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brackenwood Junior School 0.9 mi Good
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published