Kingsway Primary School

Community school·Primary school Wallasey, Wirral·CH44 9EF
Composite score
24.0
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#14,149
National rank
#2184
In North West
#76
In Wirral
Top 96%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
37%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
13 first choices, 14 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
25
any preference, for 14 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020230.8720240.9520250.932026

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

Every child who put Kingsway 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
167
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
72.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
10.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
37.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
9.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
12.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
38.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£10,254
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Kingsway Primary School at a glance

Located in Wallasey, Wirral, Kingsway Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 167 pupils aged 2 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. 37% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 20.0 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 100 in reading and 97 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Kingsway Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 14 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 12.0%. There are about 15.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 73% 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. If you are considering Kingsway Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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