Well Lane Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Birkenhead, Wirral
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Wirral Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Well Lane Primary School is a primary school in Birkenhead, Wirral for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Wirral has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Well Lane 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 |
| 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2025; for Reception 2026 there were 19 first-choice applications for 21 offers, with every first-choice family offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 60.4% of pupils, against a middle figure of 53.8% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral.
- There are 16.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wirral, with 187 pupils on roll in January 2026.
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
- Park Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead, CH42 5PF
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wirral
- Pupils on roll
- 187 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 60.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 19 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 19 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.
- Mersey Park Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Rock Ferry Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bedford Drive Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Devonshire Park Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Woodchurch Road Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Woodlands Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead 0.9 mi Good Last distance published