Our Lady's Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Prescot, Knowsley·L34 6JJ
Composite score
39.8
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#10,961
National rank
#1622
In North West
#34
In Knowsley
Top 74%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
54%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
71%
42 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.40
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
84
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.44
00.511.52
1 per place
0.8320220.7320231.0020240.9620251.402026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Our Lady's Catholic Primary School yet. Knowsley does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
232
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
15.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
23.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,965
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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About Our Lady's Catholic Primary School

Our Lady's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Prescot, Knowsley, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 232 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 54% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 18.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Our Lady's Catholic Primary School is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 42 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 24.5 pupils per teacher. Our Lady's Catholic Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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