Linaker Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Linaker Primary School is a primary school in Southport, Sefton for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Sefton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Linaker 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 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 23 first-choice applications for 23 offers (1.0 first choices per offer, 23rd highest of 72 Sefton primary schools); every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meals: 34.8% of pupils are eligible, against a middle figure of 22.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sefton.
- There are 18.1 pupils per teacher, compared with a middle figure of 24.5 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
- Sefton Street, Southport, PR8 5DB
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sefton
- Pupils on roll
- 359 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 23 first-preference applications, 23 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 Sefton.
- Birkdale Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Philip's Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Southport 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Kew Woods Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Norwood Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Good
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Farnborough Road Infant School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published