Bidston Avenue Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Birkenhead, Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.723 miles
Published by Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bidston Avenue Primary School is a primary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Bidston Avenue 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 | 0.723 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
- For Reception 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.723 miles away, the 5th shortest of 19 Wirral primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2025 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2024 and about the same as in 2021, having swung sharply between some years.
- In 2026, Reception had 65 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
- 46.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 63.9% 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
- Tollemache Road, Claughton, Birkenhead, CH41 0DQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 446 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 46.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 65 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 59 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.
- Co-op Academy Portland 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Manor Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Hillside 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bidston Village CofE (Controlled) Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published