Leasowe Primary School

Leasowe Primary School is an inclusive community primary where pupils are happy and benefit from strong, supportive relationships with staff and each other. The school was judged good in all inspected areas: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This was its first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it followed the appointment of a new headteacher in September 2022. Inspectors found a calm and purposeful atmosphere, pupils who behave well and are polite, and a broad and ambitious curriculum that meets pupils’ needs, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Strengths

• Inclusive school with strong and supportive relationships between staff and pupils
• Pupils behave well, are considerate and polite, and learning is rarely disrupted
• Calm and purposeful atmosphere across the school
• Broad and ambitious curriculum meets pupils’ needs, including those with SEND
• Clear focus on developing language skills from the early years
• Highly effective processes to identify and support pupils with additional needs
• Reading is central to the curriculum and pupils develop a love of reading from an early age
• Strong phonics teaching and timely support help pupils become fluent, confident readers
• Wide range of enrichment opportunities, including clubs and ‘The Leasowe promise’
• Well-considered personal development programme prepares pupils for life in modern Britain
• Governors use varied experience to support and challenge the school effectively
• Pupils eagerly take on leadership roles such as school councillors, reading buddies and play leaders

Areas for Improvement

• Rates of persistent absence are too high, meaning some pupils miss key learning and develop gaps in knowledge
• In a small number of subjects, the core knowledge pupils need to know is not clearly identified, so some pupils do not retain important subject content

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 Leasowe Primary School attended 89.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 34.7% 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, 3.5% of pupils at Leasowe 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 Leasowe Primary School had 14.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 31.6% 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, 33.0% of pupils at Leasowe Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 10.6% 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 Leasowe Primary School received £12,145 and spent £12,712 for each of its 171 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £260,000 (£1,519 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 Leasowe Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Leasowe Primary School is Good, from an inspection in April 2025.

When was Leasowe Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Leasowe Primary School was last inspected in April 2025.

How many pupils does Leasowe Primary School have?

Leasowe Primary School has 179 pupils on roll.

What age range does Leasowe Primary School cover?

Leasowe Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

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

Where is Leasowe Primary School?

Leasowe Primary School is at Oxley Avenue, Leasowe, Wirral, Merseyside, CH46 1RU.