Ursuline Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Liverpool, Sefton·L23 6TT
Composite score
41.1
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National rank
#1557
In North West
#42
In Sefton
Top 71%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
56%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
89%
65 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.08
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
140
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.25
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1720221.2320230.9820240.8320251.082026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Ursuline Catholic Primary School yet. Sefton 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
414
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
9.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
1.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
27.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,096
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Ursuline Catholic Primary School at a glance

Located in Liverpool, Sefton, Ursuline 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 414 pupils aged 4 to 11. 56% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 26.0 percentage points year on 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 106 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Ursuline Catholic Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 65 first choices for 60 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.9%. There are about 27.2 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 9% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Ursuline 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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