Blueberry Park

Blueberry Park is currently demonstrating strong performance in several areas, with leaders effectively implementing changes to the curriculum and fostering a safe, inclusive environment for all students. The school has established a robust safeguarding culture, ensuring that pupils feel safe and supported. Recent improvements in the mathematics and English curricula are benefiting pupils' learning, particularly in the early years, where children are excelling and building a solid foundation for future learning. However, concerns remain regarding overall academic achievement, especially in national assessments, where results have historically been below the national average, particularly in reading, writing, and mathematics. Leaders are aware of these challenges and are taking steps to address them, although it will take time to see the impact in published data.

Strengths

• The school has a strong safeguarding culture.
• Leaders have accurately identified areas for curriculum improvement.
• Pupils feel safe and supported in a highly inclusive environment.
• Early years provision is well sequenced and effective.
• Teachers use scaffolding and resources effectively to support pupil learning.
• Leaders prioritize raising expectations and improving behavior and attendance.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils do not achieve well enough in national assessments.
• Overall attendance and persistent absence rates are high.
• Some teachers are still developing strategies for newer subject curricula.
• Pupils need more support to secure accuracy and fluency in handwriting.

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 Blueberry Park attended 92.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 26.9% 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, 1.4% of pupils at Blueberry Park were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Blueberry Park had 17.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 21.1% 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, 15.0% of pupils at Blueberry Park were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.8% 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 Blueberry Park received £9,478 and spent £9,040 for each of its 314 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £430,000 (£1,369 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 Blueberry Park's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Blueberry Park is Needs attention, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Blueberry Park last inspected by Ofsted?

Blueberry Park was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Blueberry Park have?

Blueberry Park has 319 pupils on roll.

What age range does Blueberry Park cover?

Blueberry Park for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Blueberry Park's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 45% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Blueberry Park?

Blueberry Park is at Ackers Hall Avenue, Liverpool, Merseyside, L14 2DY.