St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery School

Voluntary aided school·Infant school Liverpool·L4 3RX

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

99%

76 first choices, 83 places

First choices per place

0.92

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

117

any preference, for 83 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9320220.9820230.9720240.9720250.922026

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

Liverpool does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 417
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

37.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

31.7%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

19.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.7%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

13.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

22.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,871

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St Francis de Sales Catholic Junior School Liverpool · 0.1 mi 58.7 Arnot St Mary CofE Primary School Liverpool · 0.2 mi 51.8 Gwladys Street Primary and Nursery School Liverpool · 0.5 mi 18.8 Kirkdale St Lawrence CofE VA Primary School Liverpool · 0.7 mi 51.7 St John's Catholic Primary School Liverpool · 0.7 mi 55.2 Northcote Primary School Liverpool · 0.7 mi 32.8 Florence Melly Community Primary School Liverpool · 1.0 mi 56.8 Rice Lane Primary School and Nursery Liverpool · 1.1 mi 41.4

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

About St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery School

St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Liverpool, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 417 pupils aged 3 to 7 attend the school.

99% of the families who made St Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 4.7%. There are about 22.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% 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 Francis de Sales Catholic Infant and Nursery 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.