Our Lady of Walsingham Primary School

School overview

Our Lady of Walsingham Primary School is a primary school serving Bootle, Sefton, classified by the DfE as an academy converter with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 201 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Our Lady of Walsingham Primary School 'Requires improvement'. 32% 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 6.0 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 99 in reading and 98 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 48% 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 Our Lady of Walsingham 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 further down the page.