St Marie's Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Liverpool, Knowsley·L33 6XL
Composite score
35.1
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#12,326
National rank
#1838
In North West
#40
In Knowsley
Top 83%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
54%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
19 first choices, 20 places
First choices per place
0.95
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
33
any preference, for 20 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.15
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7120220.9620230.9320241.1020250.952026

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

Every child who put St Marie's Catholic Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
231
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
71.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
19.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
34.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,478
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Marie's Catholic Primary School at a glance

Located in Liverpool, Knowsley, St Marie's Catholic Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 231 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 54% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 18.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on 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 105 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Marie's Catholic Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 19 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 9.0%. There are about 19.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 71% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. St Marie'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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