Our Lady of Walsingham Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Bootle, Sefton
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sefton Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Our Lady of Walsingham Primary School is a primary school in Bootle, Sefton for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Sefton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Our Lady of Walsingham 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2025 applicant was offered a place; for Reception 2026 there were 16 first-choice applications for 19 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- At 0.8 first choices per offer, Reception 2026 demand was the 16th lowest of 72 Sefton primary schools, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25 results: 32% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Sefton.
- The school had 24.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.3 across 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
- Stand Park avenue, Netherton, Bootle, L30 3SA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Sefton
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.8
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) | 32% | 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: 16 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 16 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 Oswald's Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi Good
- Netherton Moss Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holy Spirit Catholic Academy 0.5 mi Not judged
- Litherland Moss Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Benedict's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Grange Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Outstanding
- St Philip's Church of England Controlled Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published