Heswall Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Wirral·CH60 7SD
Composite score
51.2
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#6,869
National rank
#942
In North West
#24
In Wirral
Top 46%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
68%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
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
90%
31 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
77
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.28
00.511.5
1 per place
n/a2022n/a20230.9320241.3120251.032026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Heswall Primary School yet. Wirral 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
253
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
8.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
11.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,228
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Heswall Primary School at a glance

Located in Wirral, Heswall Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 253 pupils aged 2 to 11. 68% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Heswall 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 31 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.7%. There are about 25.9 pupils per teacher. Heswall 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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