Netherton Moss Primary School

Netherton Moss Primary is a welcoming community school where pupils behave well and personal development is strong. Pupils value the support they receive to manage emotions, build respectful relationships, and take on ambassador roles. Inspectors judged behaviour and attitudes and personal development to be good, with strong reading and phonics provision, effective SEND support, and effective safeguarding.

Strengths

• Pupils behave well in lessons and around school.
• Pupils build positive and respectful relationships with adults and each other.
• Staff provide effective emotional regulation support that helps pupils focus.
• Pupils take pride in ambassador roles such as helping in the library.
• Personal development is a high priority, including safety and healthy relationships.
• Reading and phonics are taught consistently well.
• Most pupils become confident and fluent readers.
• Pupils with SEND are identified and supported appropriately.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Governors are supportive and understand the school community.

Areas for Improvement

• The quality of education requires improvement.
• Leadership and management require improvement.
• Early years provision requires improvement.
• The curriculum is not sequenced or implemented consistently well across several subjects, including writing.
• Pupils do not build a secure body of knowledge across the curriculum.
• Pupils' achievement is variable, especially in writing.
• Many Year 6 pupils lack fluency in writing and are not well prepared for secondary school.
• Teachers do not consistently check pupils' prior knowledge or address gaps before teaching new content.
• Early years intended learning is unclear in wider curriculum areas beyond reading and mathematics.
• Attendance systems are unclear and lack rigour.
• Too many pupils are frequently late or regularly absent, missing important learning.
• Governors do not provide sufficient challenge, particularly on attendance.

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 Netherton Moss Primary School attended 92.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 27.1% 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 Netherton Moss Primary School 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 Netherton Moss Primary School had 20.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 2.0% 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, 33.2% of pupils at Netherton Moss Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% 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 Netherton Moss Primary School received £8,970 and spent £9,257 for each of its 210 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £331,000 (£1,577 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 Netherton Moss Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Netherton Moss Primary School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in April 2025.

When was Netherton Moss Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Netherton Moss Primary School was last inspected in April 2025.

How many pupils does Netherton Moss Primary School have?

Netherton Moss Primary School has 223 pupils on roll.

What age range does Netherton Moss Primary School cover?

Netherton Moss Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Netherton Moss Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 53% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Netherton Moss Primary School?

Netherton Moss Primary School is at Swifts Lane, Netherton, Bootle, Merseyside, L30 3RU.