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Primary school in Liverpool

St Paul's Catholic Junior School

Spring Grove, West Derby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L12 8SJ

Roman Catholic Full
School website 01512281159
Ofsted Report card March 2026
Met the expected standard 52% in the lower half nationally
Pupils 500 over capacity (104%)
Local deprivation 3/10 more deprived

Ofsted

Report card17 March 2026

Ofsted report card published, on 17 March 2026.

The report card grades separate areas of the school's work. Ofsted does not combine them into one overall judgement.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Report card — no overall grade
Last overall grade in this dataset
Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
Days since inspection
199 days
Framework era
Current framework (no overall grade)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Safeguarding
Met
Inclusion
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Needs attention
Achievement
Needs attention
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Needs attention

The report-card scale is Exceptional, Strong standard, Expected standard, Needs attention and Urgent improvement. Safeguarding is graded Met or Not met. These are separate judgements, not a league table or an overall score. How Ofsted's current grades work.

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths

52% England 60.7%

Reached the higher standard

2% England 8.1%

Average reading score

102 England 105.3

Average maths score

100 England 104.1

On the headline measure this school is in the lower half of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
500
Places
480
How full
Full — 500 pupils against 480 places
Girls / boys
246 / 254
Overall absence
5%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
14%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
23%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
17%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
5

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
18

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
4

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
14

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Broad Green Rail Station

2.7 km away — railway station

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

3/10 Deprivation decile

Among the more deprived half of England.

6/10 Child poverty decile

Among around the middle for England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£210,000

postcode sector L12 8 · 81 sales

Typical range
£170,000 to £263,500

middle half of sales

Semi-detached
£240,000
Terraced
£170,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than most of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
36%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
19%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
12%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
18%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
52%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
70%

England 62.7%

Social housing
6%

England 17%

Privately rented
23%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
52%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
26%

England 22.5%

No car
27%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Liverpool 021B and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 7–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
No
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Jamie Luck
Register status
Open
Local authority
Liverpool
Ward
West Derby Deysbrook
Constituency
Liverpool West Derby
URN
104661

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

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Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
St Paul's and St Timothy's Catholic Infant SchoolVoluntary aided school No overall grade — 0 mi
Blackmoor Park Infants' SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2023 — 0.2 mi
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, West DerbyVoluntary aided school Report card 2026 60% 0.4 mi
Blackmoor Park Junior SchoolCommunity school Report card 2026 60% 0.5 mi
Runnymede St Edward's Catholic Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 67% 0.5 mi
Corinthian Community Primary SchoolCommunity school Report card 2026 44% 0.8 mi
Monksdown Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 40% 0.9 mi
Knotty Ash Primary SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 53% 1 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 52%
Median of its 12 closest peers 56%
Liverpool average 52.6%
England average 60.7%

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
St Martin's CofE Primary & Nursery SchoolAcademy converter Exeter Good 2023 60%
Thatcham Park CofE PrimaryVoluntary controlled school Thatcham Good 2024 54%
Wouldham, All Saints Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Rochester Good 2023 36%
Locking Primary SchoolAcademy converter Weston-Super-Mare Report card 2026 49%
Allerton Bywater Primary SchoolAcademy converter Castleford Good 2023 69%
Knowle Park Primary SchoolCommunity school Bristol No overall grade 56%
Whitehouse Primary SchoolAcademy converter Stockton-on-Tees Good 2023 67%
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Newton Abbot Good 2022 59%
Hayward's Primary SchoolCommunity school Crediton Report card 2026 52%
St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Community Primary SchoolCommunity school Liverpool Good 2023 44%
St Columb Minor AcademyAcademy converter Newquay No overall grade 55%
Hornsea Community Primary SchoolCommunity school Hornsea Good 2023 57%

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 104661; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 17 March 2026
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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