Churchtown Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Southport, Sefton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sefton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Churchtown Primary School is a primary school in Southport, Sefton for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 June 2023. Sefton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Churchtown 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2015 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 19 of the 38 other Sefton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in 1 of the 6 earlier Reception years with a published outcome.
- 83 first-choice applications for 84 Reception offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 55% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sefton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sefton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- St Cuthbert's Road, Churchtown, Southport, PR9 7NN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sefton
- Pupils on roll
- 660 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this welcoming school.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are ones of mutual respect.”
- “This helps to create a positive and trusting atmosphere.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders have not finalised the knowledge that pupils should learn and the order in which some content should be delivered.”
- “This hinders some pupils’ learning in these subjects.”
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders have not agreed on the approaches that teachers should use to assess pupils’ learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 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) | 55% | 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: 83 first-preference applications, 84 offers in total, 83 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 Sefton.
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Good
- Larkfield Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Marshside Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Bishop David Sheppard Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Good
- St John's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Good
- Norwood Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Southport 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade