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Primary · CH44 · Wirral

St Alban's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy

Ashburton Road, Wallasey, CH44 5XB

HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST is the academy trust. Admissions rules still sit with the school and your local council.

Area judgements

At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedArea judgements
Attendance95.9%
Attainment58% met expected standard (KS2)
AdmissionsOften has places
Pupils236

Ofsted inspection

Latest outcome

Area judgements

New inspection format: no single overall grade.

Latest visit (Nov 2024): no overall grade — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and early years good. See the full Ofsted report.

This page shows previous graded and latest ungraded outcomes when Ofsted publishes them in the national file. Full history stays on the Ofsted report.

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School figures

Coloured bars compare this school with the average for other schools in CH44. Where we have them, council (Wirral) and England figures appear under FSM, SEN and attendance. FSM, SEN and EAL are context, not quality scores. For attendance, higher is usually better.

Pupils on roll
236
Free school meals
36.9%
13.1% below district average (50%)

Also: Wirral 31.2% · England 24.7%

SEN
26.3%
2.2% below district average (28.5%)

Also: Wirral 22.1% · England 18.2%

EAL
5.5%
2.9% below district average (8.4%)
Attendance
95.9%
1.5% above district average (94.4%)

Also: Wirral 94.4% · England 94.8%

Persistent absence
9.8%
Attainment
58% met expected standard (KS2)

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the CH44 average; the darker bar is this school.

Trends over time

We do not have multi-year attendance or attainment figures for this school in the current DfE extracts.

Admissions

Demand signal
Often has places
Published capacity (GIAS)
392
Pupils on roll
236

Indicative signal from published roll versus GIAS capacity. Not applications versus offers, and not a guarantee of a place.

Published admission number (PAN) and applications versus offers are not in our national datasets yet. Use your council booklet.

Check your council admissions booklet via the Wirral page.

SEN support

SEN %
26.3%
On-site provision
SEN provision · SEMH
Need types
SEMH

A higher SEN percentage can mean experience with support needs, or more demand on staff. Ask the SENCO what is available day to day.

Sources and freshness

  • School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
  • Pipeline last checked: Sept 2026.
  • Council and England attendance / FSM tables: 2024/25.
  • School figures from DfE / GIAS / Ofsted where published. District averages use other schools in this postcode district. Council and England figures use DfE local authority and national tables for the matching phase.
  • School photos are not shown yet. Schools will be able to add one later.
  • Methodology · Data updates