Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School

Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary is a small, inclusive Catholic primary in a deprived area with high proportions of disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND. Safeguarding is met, and most areas—attendance and behaviour, early years, inclusion, and personal development—are judged at expected standard. Pupils are happy, safe, behave well, and benefit from strong pastoral care and enrichment. Published outcomes are lower than national in several measures, though reading and mathematics are improving.

Strengths

• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture where concerns are identified and managed.
• Pupils behave well and show positive attitudes to learning in a calm, respectful environment.
• Bullying is rare and dealt with swiftly and effectively when it occurs.
• Leaders have clear attendance systems and take appropriate action to improve attendance.
• Early years provision is ambitious and effective, with children happy, safe and ready for Year 1.
• Inclusion is a strength: SEND and disadvantaged pupils are identified early and well supported.
• The specially resourced provision helps pupils with SEND access the curriculum and progress well.
• Personal development is well structured, promoting respect, tolerance and understanding of British values.
• Pastoral support for pupils and families is caring and responsive.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of enrichment, including swimming, residentials and clubs.
• Reading and mathematics teaching are improving, with consistent phonics and structured maths.
• Parents are overwhelmingly positive and staff value leaders' consideration of workload and wellbeing.
• Governors are committed, knowledgeable and check additional funding for disadvantaged pupils.

Areas for Improvement

• Teaching of writing does not secure foundational skills in handwriting, spelling and sentence construction.
• Gaps in writing are not closing quickly enough, limiting how well pupils express ideas.
• Too many pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, do not reach age-related expectations in writing by the end of key stage 2.
• Published outcomes in combined reading, writing and mathematics remain below national averages.
• Disadvantaged pupils' outcomes remain below national and the disadvantage gap is large.
• Pupils' recall of knowledge across wider curriculum subjects is not secure enough.
• Teachers do not routinely check that important knowledge has been learned and remembered, so gaps persist.
• Some aspects of school work, including single central record checks, lack sufficient oversight by leaders and governors.
• The quality of some areas is not evaluated accurately, so improvement strategies have less impact than they could.
• Data shows persistent absence remains well above national averages, even though leaders have systems in place.

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 Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School attended 93.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 26.4% 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, 3.4% of pupils at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic 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 Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School had 14.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.4% 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, 37.3% of pupils at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School 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 Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School received £10,765 and spent £10,335 for each of its 147 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £155,000 (£1,052 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 Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School have?

Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School has 153 pupils on roll.

What age range does Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School cover?

Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 29% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School?

Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School is at Ford Close, Litherland, Liverpool, Merseyside, L21 0EP.