St Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Liverpool·L11 1DB
Composite score
35.1
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#12,326
National rank
#1838
In North West
#92
In Liverpool
Top 83%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
54%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
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%
34 first choices, 34 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
60
any preference, for 34 places

Every child who put St Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary Academy 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
455
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
48.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
23.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
26.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,485
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

St Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary Academy is a primary school serving Liverpool, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 455 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 54% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 18.0 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 102 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 34 families who put it first were offered a place. There are about 16.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 49% 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 Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary Academy 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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