Gilmour Primary School

Gilmour Primary School is a larger-than-average primary formed in 2023 by the amalgamation of Gilmour Infant School and Gilmour Junior School. Inspectors found a cohesive, nurturing school where pupils are proud to attend and feel safe. Safeguarding standards are met. The curriculum has been successfully overhauled, teaching is highly skilled, and early years provision is particularly strong. Pupils behave well, attendance is generally good, personal development and pastoral support are effective, and pupils with SEND are well supported. Parents are highly positive about the school. Pupils achieve well overall. By the end of Year 6, attainment in reading, writing and mathematics is close to or sometimes above the national average, and 2024/25 combined outcomes were above national. Pupils read fluently, use ambitious vocabulary and are prepared for the next stage of education. However, disadvantaged pupils do not attain as highly as their non-disadvantaged peers in school or nationally, and some disadvantaged pupils are persistently absent. Leaders’ use of the pupil premium grant is not precise enough, and oversight of different groups’ achievement is not sharp enough to close these gaps. Overall, this is a strong school with effective leadership, positive culture and no safeguarding concerns. The main improvement priority is to refine the pupil premium strategy and strengthen leaders’ and governors’ oversight so that disadvantaged pupils achieve as well as they should.

Strengths

• Successful amalgamation of infant and junior schools into a cohesive primary.
• Broad, ambitious curriculum with clear progression and subject-specific language.
• Highly skilled teachers use effective training and adapt teaching to overcome gaps.
• Strong early years provision with purposeful environments and a sharp language focus.
• Pupils, including those with SEND, access the same curriculum and receive well-matched support.
• Pupils read fluently and develop secure foundational skills.
• Positive pupil behaviour and attitudes in calm, disruption-free classrooms.
• Effective attendance strategies with persistent absence below the national average.
• High-quality personal development, pastoral care and wellbeing support.
• Wide range of enrichment, leadership and after-school opportunities.
• Strong relationships with parents and a nurturing school culture.
• Staff feel supported, with workload and wellbeing carefully considered.
• Governors are experienced, knowledgeable and generally hold leaders to account.
• Safeguarding standards are met.

Areas for Improvement

• Disadvantaged pupils attain less well than non-disadvantaged peers in school and nationally.
• Pupil premium spending is not precise enough to improve disadvantaged pupils’ attainment.
• Leaders and governors do not have sharp enough oversight of achievement for different groups, especially disadvantaged pupils.
• A few disadvantaged pupils attend school less often than they should.
• The disadvantaged gap in combined reading, writing and mathematics remains large.

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 Gilmour Primary School attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.4% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Gilmour 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 Gilmour Primary School had 20.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.0% 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, 15.2% of pupils at Gilmour Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.6% 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 Gilmour Primary School received £7,072 and spent £7,093 for each of its 604 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £264,000 (£436 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 Gilmour Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Gilmour Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Gilmour Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Gilmour Primary School have?

Gilmour Primary School has 604 pupils on roll.

What age range does Gilmour Primary School cover?

Gilmour Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 74% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Gilmour Primary School?

Gilmour Primary School is at Southbank Road, Liverpool, L19 9AR.