Broadgreen Primary

Broadgreen Primary is a welcoming, inclusive school where pupils feel safe and are well supported to thrive. The school serves a community with well-above-average deprivation and a much higher-than-average proportion of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, including those with education, health and care plans. Inspectors found particular strength in inclusion and personal development: leaders identify needs quickly, work closely with families and external professionals, and provide a broad programme that builds pupils' confidence, resilience and understanding of safety and diversity. Pastoral support is highly effective, behaviour is positive and attendance is in line with the national average, with persistent absence falling. Safeguarding standards are met.

Strengths

• Highly effective inclusion support that identifies needs quickly and reduces barriers to learning and wellbeing.
• Strong personal development programme carefully matched to pupils' needs and the local area.
• Highly effective pastoral support and a calm, nurturing culture.
• Pupils behave well and are respectful, kind and confident.
• Attendance is in line with the national average and persistent absence is falling.
• Leaders use pupil premium funding well to tailor support for disadvantaged pupils.
• Staff value the training and professional development they receive and feel supported with workload and wellbeing.
• Governors know the school well and hold leaders to account, including for financial decisions.
• Parents are positive about the school and value trusting relationships with leaders and staff.
• Pupils, including those with SEND, are well prepared for the next stage of education.
• Disadvantaged pupils' writing and mathematics outcomes are above national averages in the latest year.
• Safeguarding standards are met and pupils feel safe.
• A broad enrichment offer in sport, music and the arts broadens pupils' experiences.

Areas for Improvement

• Phonics gaps are not always identified and addressed quickly enough, so some pupils do not read fluently by key stage 2.
• Phonics screening outcomes are in line with the national average but are not improving as well as other areas.
• Early years provision and the learning environment are not consistently planned well enough for children to apply and deepen their learning.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Broadgreen Primary attended 96.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.8% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.4% of pupils at Broadgreen Primary were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Broadgreen Primary had 20.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 24.8% of pupils at Broadgreen Primary were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 8.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Broadgreen Primary received £8,098 and spent £7,888 for each of its 238 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £194,000 (£818 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Broadgreen Primary's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Broadgreen Primary is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Broadgreen Primary last inspected by Ofsted?

Broadgreen Primary was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Broadgreen Primary have?

Broadgreen Primary has 246 pupils on roll.

What age range does Broadgreen Primary cover?

Broadgreen Primary for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Broadgreen Primary's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Broadgreen Primary?

Broadgreen Primary is at Oakhill Road, Old Swan, Liverpool, Merseyside, L13 5UE.