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Phoenix Primary School

Primary · Liverpool · L7 9LY

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 14 June 2022

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At a glance

227 pupils

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
46.7% of pupils
English as additional language
50.7% of pupils
SEN support
8.3% of pupils
EHC plan
20.1% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
http://www.phoenixprimaryliverpool.co.uk/
URN
133702

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.73 first-choice applications per place

26 places offered · 19 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

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)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
9%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
0%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
100
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
95
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
8.8%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
23.7%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
31.5
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

31% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 21% moved to another state school · 48% 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

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

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