King's Northway Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Liverpool·L15 7JQ
Composite score
47.2
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#8,306
National rank
#1179
In North West
#63
In Liverpool
Top 56%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
60%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
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
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
16 first choices, 18 places
First choices per place
0.89
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
28
any preference, for 18 places
Applications from another council area
4%

Every child who put King's Northway 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
379
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
34.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
24.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Staffing & funding

Spend per pupil
£4,105
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

King's Northway Primary Academy at a glance

Located in Liverpool, King's Northway Primary Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 379 pupils aged 3 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 60% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 4.0 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 105 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). King's Northway Primary Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 16 families who put it first were offered a place. If you are considering King's Northway Primary Academy, 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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