Roscoe Primary School

Roscoe Primary School is a solid, well-led school that meets the expected standard across the areas inspected. Pupils achieve broadly in line with national expectations by the end of Year 6 and are well prepared for secondary school. The early years provision is a particular strength, with children getting off to a strong start through effective phonics teaching, accurate assessment of starting points and positive partnerships with parents. Reading is a priority across the school, and pupils with SEND or disadvantaged backgrounds typically progress successfully from their starting points. Safeguarding standards are met, and pupils feel safe in a calm, respectful environment. The school benefits from effective leadership and governance within the Northern Schools Trust. Leaders have a clear understanding of improvement priorities, including phonics, writing and attendance, and trustees and local governors provide appropriate support and challenge. Attendance has improved strongly and now broadly matches national averages, while personal development, enrichment and pastoral support are broad and inclusive. The school serves a community with high levels of disadvantage and above-average SEN support, which is important context for its work. There are still areas to refine. Checks on learning are not always precise enough to pick up misconceptions in handwriting and spelling promptly, and expectations for respectful behaviour need to be applied more consistently, especially with younger pupils. A few pupils remain persistently absent, and previous underachievement in the Year 4 multiplication check is being addressed through a recent improvement plan that is beginning to have a positive impact. Overall, this is a school providing a good standard of education with clear capacity to improve further.

Strengths

• Broad, ambitious and logically ordered curriculum with reading as a clear priority.
• Strong early years provision with accurate assessment of children's starting points.
• Skilled phonics teaching helps children decode words quickly and confidently.
• Pupils, including those with SEND and disadvantaged pupils, typically progress successfully through the curriculum.
• Inclusion is a strength, with early support, effective support plans and strong external partnerships.
• Attendance has improved to broadly national averages through robust and caring actions.
• Pupils behave respectfully, older pupils are consistently polite, and bullying is rare and handled promptly.
• Leaders, trustees and local governors provide effective strategic direction and accountability.
• Staff benefit from professional development, trust collaboration and a positive wellbeing culture.
• A broad personal development programme includes clubs, enrichment, British values and mental health support.

Areas for Improvement

• Checks on learning are not always precise enough to identify and address misconceptions in handwriting and spelling promptly.
• Expectations for respectful and positive behaviour need to be applied more consistently, particularly for younger pupils.
• A few pupils remain persistently absent despite improvements in overall attendance.
• Historically, pupils achieved less well in the Year 4 multiplication check, though a recent improvement plan is beginning to have impact.

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 Roscoe Primary School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.5% 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 Roscoe 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 Roscoe Primary School had 22.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.0% 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, 34.0% of pupils at Roscoe Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.4% 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 2023–24 Roscoe Primary School received £7,780 and spent £8,429 for each of its 221 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £825,000 (-£3,732 per pupil).

Across all 6 schools of Northern Schools Trust, income was £8,595 and spending £8,415 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Liverpool · Liverpool local authority: places and applications

Roscoe Primary School is part of Northern Schools Trust, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

• Four Oaks Community Primary School Liverpool
• New Park Primary School Liverpool
• North Liverpool Academy Liverpool
• Liverpool Life Sciences UTC Liverpool
• The Studio School Liverpool Liverpool
• Thomas Gray Primary School Bootle
• Gateacre School Liverpool

What is Roscoe Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Roscoe Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in July 2026.

When was Roscoe Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Roscoe Primary School was last inspected in July 2026.

How many pupils does Roscoe Primary School have?

Roscoe Primary School has 203 pupils on roll.

What age range does Roscoe Primary School cover?

Roscoe Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Roscoe Primary School?

Roscoe Primary School is at Alison Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, L13 9AD.