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Evelyn Community Primary School

Primary · Prescot · L34 2SP

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Expected standard

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Expected standardAchievement: Expected standardAttendance & behaviour: Expected standardPersonal development: Expected standardInclusion: Strong standardLeadership & governance: Expected standardEarly years: Expected standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 23 June 2026 · report published 23 September 2026

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At a glance

250 pupils · 102% of 245 capacity (over capacity) (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
20.1% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
5.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
11.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
4.7% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.evelyncpschool.co.uk/
URN
104446

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 27 families named it first for 34 Reception places, 0.79 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2026 entry went to 2.123 miles; distance decided places in 3 of the 3 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2020 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 23 June 2026, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Expected standard. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.79 first-choice applications per place

34 places offered · 27 first-choice applications · usually has places

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured

Catchment area

Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Places by distance, last offered at 2.123 miles for 2026 entry.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 2.123 miles

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

29 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
79%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
10%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
111
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
110
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school79%
Median of its 12 closest peers64.5%
Knowsley average60.6%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.

SchoolOfstedResult
St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Primary School, PadihamBurnley · 32 miles awayGood80%
Carr Junior SchoolYork · 77 miles awayGood64%
Grove Lea Primary SchoolPontefract · 61 miles awayOutstanding77%
Bursar Primary AcademyCleethorpes · 113 miles awayGood65%
Alsager Highfields Community Primary SchoolStoke-on-Trent · 31 miles awayGood72%
Grange Valley Primary SchoolSt Helens · 6 miles awayOutstanding71%
Redbrook Hayes Community Primary SchoolRugeley · 59 miles awayGood48%
St Giles CofE Primary SchoolDerbyshire · 61 miles awayExpected standard54%
Greatwood Community Primary SchoolSkipton · 48 miles awayGood77%
Whitchurch CofE Junior AcademyWhitchurch · 32 miles awayGood50%
St Peter's CofE Primary School ChorleyChorley · 17 miles awayExpected standard62%
Wellsprings Primary SchoolTaunton · 166 miles awayGood (2019)44%

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 90% (Knowsley 84%, England 60%) · Black African 3% (Knowsley 2%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Knowsley 0%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Knowsley 0%, England 1%) · Any other White background 1% (Knowsley 4%, England 7%) · Asian Indian 1% (Knowsley 2%, England 4%) · Asian Pakistani 1% (Knowsley 0%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Knowsley 1%, England 2%) · other groups together 1%

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.5%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
11%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.00 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Knowsley: 1.97 suspensions and 0.01 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

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Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
19.8
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

97% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained primaries: 0.18% vacant, 0.36% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

35.7% of teachers took sickness absence, 2 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days

Teacher pay (November 2025)

Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £52,833; 15.4% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Inspection history since 2015

Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
2/10among the most deprived fifth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
3/10more deprived than most of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher27.8%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications20.9%18.1%
In managerial or professional work29.1%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways24.2%18.1%
Residents in very good health44.6%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier59.3%62.3%
Social housing17.6%17.1%
Privately rented22.7%20.5%
Detached houses17.6%22.9%
Flats13.3%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms12.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van36.8%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01006466 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£190,000408 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£132,500–£261,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (68)£315,000
Semi-detached (174)£235,000
Terraced (113)£140,000
Flat (53)£105,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (3.42 km, 2026 entry): 2,609 sales, median £195,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
4an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
6an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
21an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
3an urban school averages 6.1

A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted

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