All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School, Liverpool
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School is a primary school for pupils aged 2 to 11 in Liverpool. It has a Roman Catholic religious character. It was rated Outstanding at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in June 2015. Ofsted's ungraded inspection in March 2025 did not change this grade. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 156th-highest of the 177 schools in Liverpool with published results, and 13,005th of 14,452 across England. For 2026 entry it had 1.4 first-choice applications for every place. It was full in 2025, at 107% of capacity.
- SATs results
- Below England average
- Ofsted
- Outstanding (2015)
- Demand
- Oversubscribed
- Attendance
- Below England average
Reception applications for September 2027 close in 81 days
Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Liverpool (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.
Data last updated 26 Oct 2026
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School in detail
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School in its own words
In its own words: "Welcome to Anfield Children’s Centre, we offer a wide range of services and activities for children under 5 and their parents and carers."
From the headteacher's welcome: "In the light of God, we shine on our own, but we shine brighter together . It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to All Saints, where we offer education and care to children from 2 -11, including an Enhanced Provision for children with severe learning difficulties."
Coming up: an open evening on Monday 16 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.
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Vision and values (school website)Headteacher's welcome (school website)Open days on the school's site (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Results
In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 62% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 72% and 70% in Liverpool and 77% and 75% across England.
Results were similar in 2024 (59% in reading, 57% in maths).
Getting a place at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
For September 2026 entry, 81 families put All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School as their first choice and 129 named it as one of their preferences, for 58 places offered. That is 1.4 first choices for every place. 24 families who put it first were not offered a place there.
Admissions history and your chances at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School are Anfield Road Primary School (under 0.1 miles, Good, 49% reading, 44% maths); Four Oaks Community Primary School (0.4 miles, 86% reading, 86% maths); St. Margaret's Anfield Church of England Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 76% reading, 75% maths); and Pinehurst Primary School (0.5 miles).
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.
Anfield Road Primary SchoolFour Oaks Community Primary SchoolSt. Margaret's Anfield Church of England Primary SchoolPinehurst Primary School
What parents say
35 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School (as of September 2025): 86% would recommend the school, 94% say their child is happy there and 55% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.
The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (94%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (55%).
Who goes there
40.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.
In 2026, 108 pupils (18.7%) received SEN support and 53 (9.2%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School has a resourced provision (36 places, 36 pupils on roll) and a SEN unit (36 places, 36 pupils on roll) for speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs and severe learning difficulties.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Kirkdale Rail Station, about 1.4 miles away in a straight line.
15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Andrew Road (adjacent), 210 metres away.
The area around the school
Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.
In August 2026, police recorded 656 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, public order offences and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Liverpool (342), as is usual near a town centre.
Suspensions and exclusions
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School are North Liverpool Academy (0.6 miles), The Academy of St Francis of Assisi (0.8 miles) and Notre Dame Catholic Academy (1 mile).
North Liverpool AcademyThe Academy of St Francis of AssisiNotre Dame Catholic Academy
Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; Ofsted Parent View; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime; DfE exclusions statistics
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoThis judgement is from June 2015, 11 years ago, longer than Ofsted's usual 4-year cycle: the school may have changed since.
Overall
Quality of Education
Behaviour & Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership & Management
Early Years
Ofsted Insights
From Ofsted's March 2025 inspection report.
What This School Does Well
All Saints' provides an aspirational curriculum designed to help pupils overcome challenges in their everyday lives. The school excels at supporting children's language and communication development from the moment they arrive, and pupils develop exceptionally mature attitudes towards topics like relationships and health. The school creates a warm, welcoming environment where pupils are genuinely happy to learn and contribute positively to their community.
Key Strengths
- Outstanding early years provision with children exceptionally well prepared for Year 1
- Strong focus on developing pupils' vocabulary, communication skills and love of reading
- Excellent support for pupils with SEND who progress well alongside their peers
- Exceptional range of enrichment activities including trips to Italy and Seville, and work with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Warm, positive relationships and high behavioural expectations that pupils strive to meet
Areas for Improvement
- Learning checks sometimes miss gaps in pupils' prior knowledge and misconceptions, making it harder for new learning to make sense
- Spelling, punctuation and handwriting errors often go unchecked, causing pupils to repeat mistakes
- Attendance and punctuality remain issues - many pupils miss valuable learning time
Safeguarding
Safeguarding arrangements are effective with strong systems in place to keep pupils safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Trips to Italy and Seville, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra instrumental music, planting flowers and littering prevention work with local council, walking group to provide company for local residents
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School is a welcoming and caring learning community where pupils are happy and experience an exceptional range of enrichment activities. The school has made recent improvements to its curriculum and provides strong support for pupils with additional needs.
At a Glance
40.6%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
Resourced provision and SEN unit: Speech and language, Autism, SEMH +1
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
What Parents Think
35 responsesSource: Ofsted Parent View, responses as at September 2025 - % who strongly agree or agree
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2024/25KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has remained stable at around 57% (2024 to 2025). Maths has improved from 57% to 62% (2024 to 2025). Writing has declined from 59% to 52% (2024 to 2025).
Class Sizes
26.5
Avg class size
28.0
Infant (KS1)
30.1
KS2
19
Total classes
3 classes with more than 30 pupils
2025/26 academic year
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools
Latest from All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
September 2026
25 Sep 2026
Reception Open Evening for September 2027
15 Sep 2026
Friday 17th July 2026
17 Jul 2026
Friday 10th July 2026
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Friday 3rd July 2026
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Friday 19th June 2026
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Before and after school care
Clubs on Ofsted's childcare register at or near All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School.
- XT Club840m away · Not yet graded
- LSC @ St Margaret C of E Anfield Primary840m away · Not yet graded
Term dates
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School is a voluntary aided school, so it sets its own term dates: check the school's website. As a guide, see Liverpool's term dates for its community schools.
Getting There
Bus Stops
Free school transport
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You apply to the council where you live. All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School is in Liverpool; for families living there:
- Liverpool's school travel policy: this document : Home to School Transport Policy 2026-27
- How to apply: Apply for a travel pass
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 85
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 24
- Children hurt
- 18
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 85 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 24 serious and 61 slight.
18 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 13 on foot, 1 on a bicycle and 4 in a vehicle or otherwise.
14 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Liverpool is 32 (the median across 193 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
107%
Over capacity
450 pupils
420 places
30 pupils over capacity in 2025
2025, DfE school capacity data
Area Demand Pressure - Liverpool
Based on MHCLG Live Table 122 (2024-25, last 5 years) for Liverpool
Across Liverpool council
Places available
5,870
Applications
4,736
Got 1st preference
88.6%
Got preferred school
97.3%
All primary applications across Liverpool council (2026/27), not just this school.
This school: Oversubscribed
Inspection History(5)
SEND & SEN Provision
SEN Overview
108
SEN Support
53
EHC Plans
27.9%
of Total Pupils
2026 academic year
Provision & Specialist Facilities
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School has a resourced provision (36 places, 36 pupils on roll) and a SEN unit (36 places, 36 pupils on roll) for speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs and severe learning difficulties.
Source: GIAS, Department for Education.
Pupils by Need Type
Pupil Demographics
Ethnicity
2026 academic year
Key Indicators
577
Total Pupils
296
Boys
281
Girls
2026 academic year
Workforce
27
Teachers
21.4:1
Pupil-teacher ratio
£48,028
Mean salary
2026 data
School Funding
£5,906
Per pupil
£3114k
Total funding
£300k
Pupil premium
2025-26 financial year allocations
Pupil Absence2024/25
6.8%
Overall absence
20.2%
Persistent absence
397
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
Questions parents ask about All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School
What are SATs results like at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
Of the pupils at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 57% reached the expected standard in reading and 62% did so in maths.
What is All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School's Ofsted rating?
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School's most recent Ofsted inspection, in March 2025, was ungraded, so it gave no overall grade. At its last graded inspection, in June 2015, it was rated Outstanding.
What is the catchment area for All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
No fixed boundary. When All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School is oversubscribed, Liverpool allocates places by its published criteria, usually ending with home-to-school distance.
Is it hard to get a place at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School was full in 2025, at 107% of its capacity, so places are allocated on the oversubscription criteria.
How big are the classes at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
Classes at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School average 26.5 pupils (2025/26). 3 classes have more than 30 pupils - infant classes are capped at 30 by law, with limited exceptions.
How many pupils go to All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School has around 577 pupils on roll. 41% are eligible for free school meals.
Does All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School have specialist SEN provision?
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School has a resourced provision (36 places, 36 pupils on roll) and a SEN unit (36 places, 36 pupils on roll) for speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs and severe learning difficulties.
What is attendance like at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
6.8% of sessions were missed at All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School in 2024/25. 20.2% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
How do I apply to All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
Apply through Liverpool's coordinated admissions process, naming All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School on your application. Applications for Reception places starting in September 2027 close on Friday 15 January 2027, and offers are made on Friday 16 April 2027.
Does All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School have a breakfast club or after-school club?
Ofsted's childcare register lists 2 out-of-school clubs within a kilometre of All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School: XT Club (840m away, registered, not yet graded) and LSC @ St Margaret C of E Anfield Primary (840m away, registered, not yet graded). The school may also run its own clubs, which don't have to register with Ofsted.
How many road collisions happen near All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 85 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 24 serious and 61 slight. 18 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 13 on foot, 1 on a bicycle and 4 in a vehicle or otherwise. 14 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Liverpool is 32 (the median across 193 schools, same distance and years).
Where is All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School?
All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School is at Oakfield, Anfield, Liverpool, L4 2QG.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)