St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Prenton, Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.122 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead is a primary school in Prenton, Wirral for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 November 2022. Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead 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 | 0.122 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 0.122 miles away, the shortest of 19 Wirral primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- 2026 Reception entry saw 23 first-choice applications for 25 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 68% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%); 8% 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
- Woodchurch Road, Oxton, Prenton, CH43 5UT
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 237 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils, and children in early years, love coming to school.”
- “Pupils enjoy learning and finding out new things with their friends.”
- “They know that they can talk to any member of staff if they are sad or worried.”
To improve
- “Leaders are refining the content of the curriculum in a small number of subjects where pupils are not learning as well as they should.”
- “The support that they give to teachers is not as effective as it could be and this hinders how well some pupils build up new knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 December 2022 (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) | 68% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 23 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.
- Devonshire Park Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Woodchurch Road Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Mersey Park Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Bedford Drive Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Prenton Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published