St Michael's Catholic Primary School

About St Michael's Catholic Primary School

St Michael's Catholic Primary School in Liverpool posts a Key Stage 2 combined expected standard in reading, writing and maths of 72%, comfortably above the Liverpool local authority average of 59% for primary schools. That 13-point gap is significant and places the school 19th out of 102 primary schools in the borough, putting it in the top 20% locally. It also ranks in the top 25% nationally. The school is heavily oversubscribed — 67 families applied for 47 places in the 2025/26 intake, with 40 putting it as their first preference. That level of demand makes sense given the results, but it also means getting a place is far from guaranteed. The school's most recent Ofsted inspection in February 2024 awarded an overall Good rating, a clear improvement from the Requires Improvement it received in 2020. Behaviour and attitudes were singled out as Outstanding, which is the highest possible grade.

Digging into the 2023/24 SATs results, the school's strength is reading, where 36% of pupils reached the higher standard — well above the 19% in maths and 9% in writing. Average scaled scores sit at 105 for both reading and maths, which is solidly above the national baseline of 100. The proportion hitting the expected standard in maths is 81%, reading 79%, and writing 74%, so writing is the relative weak spot. The school's ranking score of 72 is based on the combined expected standard metric, and while it's not in the very top tier locally — the top three schools all score 83 or above — it's performing well above the typical Liverpool primary. The school has 451 pupils against a capacity of 420, so it's genuinely full. Over half of pupils (51.1%) are eligible for free school meals, which makes the above-average results particularly noteworthy.

The school offers a nursery provision for children from age three and has a strong set of facilities including a sensory room, forest school area, chapel, and playing fields. Sports provision covers cross country, football, cricket, swimming and rounders, while clubs include drama, choir, eco club and film club. The SEND register is broad, with provisions for dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social and emotional mental health needs, speech and language issues, hearing impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. For Catholic families in Liverpool, this is clearly a popular and improving option, though non-Catholic applicants should be aware of the oversubscription ratio of 1.43. The nearest Outstanding-rated primary is Whitefield, just half a kilometre away, so there is strong competition in the immediate area. This school suits families who want a faith-based primary with strong academic outcomes and a proven track record of improvement.

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