Yew Tree Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Knowsley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Knowsley Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Yew Tree Primary Academy is a primary school in Knowsley for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 January 2023. Knowsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Yew Tree Primary Academy 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 46.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Knowsley.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 27 of the 47 other Knowsley primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 29% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Knowsley.
- 2026 Reception entry had 20 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Knowsley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- The Avenue, Halewood, Knowsley, L26 1UU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Knowsley
- Pupils on roll
- 226 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 46.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils wear their school uniform with pride.”
- “They enjoy learning and socialising with their friends.”
- “Pupils help to ensure that Yew Tree Primary Academy is a harmonious school, where pupils respect each other and staff.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders have not precisely identified the knowledge and skills that they want pupils to acquire and when to teach it.”
- “This makes it harder for teachers to build pupils’ knowledge over time and to check whether pupils have understood and remembered their learning.”
- “However, leaders’ initiatives to improve pupils’ attendance are not having the rapid impact that leaders intend.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 March 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) | 29% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 20 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 Knowsley.
- St Andrew the Apostle Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Plantation Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mark's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Halewood Church of England Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Blacklow Brow School 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sylvester Primary Academy 3.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published