St John's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Liverpool · L4 1UN
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Outstanding. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 22 June 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
524 pupils · 100% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 28.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 30.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 19.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 132796
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.98 first-choice applications per place56 places offered · 55 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
60 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
84% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% moved to another state school · 7% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 19 November 2024: S5 Inspection
- 12 January 2016: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Kirkdale St Lawrence CofE VA Primary School
- Everton Free School & Football College
- Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School
- Notre Dame Catholic Academy
- The Beacon Church of England Primary School
- St Francis de Sales Catholic Junior School
- Four Oaks Community Primary School
- Gwladys Street Primary and Nursery School