St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Liverpool·L17 7BA
Composite score
40.3
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#10,808
National rank
#1594
In North West
#82
In Liverpool
Top 73%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
53%
% achieving higher RWM
5%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
44 first choices, 57 places
First choices per place
0.77
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
100
any preference, for 57 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
0.5720220.8020230.8220240.7420250.772026

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

Every child who put St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Community 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
409
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
8.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
10.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
11.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,772
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Community Primary School is a primary school serving Liverpool, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 409 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 53% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 10.0 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 106 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 5% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 44 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.4%. There are about 19.3 pupils per teacher. St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Community 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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