Redgate Community Primary School

Redgate Community Primary School continues to demonstrate strong performance, maintaining its good status since the last inspection in October 2017. The school provides a nurturing environment where pupils feel safe and valued, fostering a supportive community atmosphere. Leaders have high expectations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and an ambitious curriculum is in place, allowing most students to achieve well. The administration's commitment to both academic and emotional support is evident from positive feedback from parents and a calm, orderly behavior observed among pupils during lessons.

Strengths

• High expectations for all pupils, including those with SEND.
• Ambitious curriculum that benefits pupils across all ages.
• Strong provision for early years education.
• Effective safeguarding measures in place.
• Pupils are well-supported in their personal development.
• Positive feedback from parents regarding the school's support.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, teachers do not consistently check pupils' retention of earlier knowledge.

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 Redgate Community Primary School attended 92.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 25.4% 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, 1.9% of pupils at Redgate Community 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 Redgate Community Primary School had 13.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.5% 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, 12.4% of pupils at Redgate Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 18.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit with 42 pupils.

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 Redgate Community Primary School received £12,165 and spent £11,449 for each of its 248 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £364,000 (£1,466 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 Redgate Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Redgate Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in March 2023.

When was Redgate Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Redgate Community Primary School was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does Redgate Community Primary School have?

Redgate Community Primary School has 259 pupils on roll.

What age range does Redgate Community Primary School cover?

Redgate Community Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Redgate Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 65% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Redgate Community Primary School?

Redgate Community Primary School is at Redgate, Formby, Liverpool, Merseyside, L37 4EW.