Thurstaston Dawpool CofE Primary School

About Thurstaston Dawpool CofE Primary School

Thurstaston Dawpool CofE Primary School was rated Good in its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2025, a change from the Outstanding grade it held in its previous inspection in 2008. The school’s strongest academic metric is its Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard, where 76% of pupils met the benchmark in 2023/24. That figure is well above the Wirral local authority average of 53%, and it places the school 7th out of 64 primary schools in the borough — comfortably inside the top 25% nationally. In individual subjects, 93% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, 86% in writing and 83% in maths. Higher-standard attainment was strongest in reading, with 41% of pupils achieving above the expected level, compared with 31% in maths and 17% in writing. Average scaled scores in reading and maths both sat at 107. The school’s overall ranking score of 76 puts it just behind local peers such as Thornton Hough Primary and Our Lady of Pity Catholic Primary.

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