Heswall Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.776 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Heswall Primary School is a primary school in Wirral for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Heswall 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 | 0.776 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, 68% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- For Reception 2025 the last distance offered was 0.776 miles, about the same as in 2021, and the 6th shortest of 19 Wirral primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 28 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (10%) were not offered a place.
- 16.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 5.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
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
- Whitfield Lane, Heswall, Wirral, CH60 7SD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 257 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
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: 31 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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.
- Pensby Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Heswall St Peter's CofE Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ladymount Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Barnston Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gayton Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thingwall Primary School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Irby Primary School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thornton Hough Primary School 2.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published