Blackmoor Park Junior School, Liverpool

Ofsted's report card from its 24 February 2026 inspection grades Blackmoor Park Junior School on 6 areas: 1 expected standard and 5 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The school's personal development programme is well structured, responsive and reviewed regularly."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Over time, pupils' attainment in the end of key stage 2 tests has been much lower than national averages."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Leaders face considerable challenges around attendance, including overcoming some entrenched low attendance rates."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Until recently, leaders' attention has not been focused sufficiently on ensuring that pupils secure the basic knowledge they need in reading, writing and mathematics."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and pupils who are disadvantaged is variable."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "The school's context has changed over time."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to strengthen the improvements to the curriculum and teaching, so that pupils benefit from consistently effective practice, which builds on recent gains in reading, writing and mathematics and supports them to achieve well across the curriculum over time"; "Leaders should develop staff expertise to adapt their teaching, so that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and other barriers to learning benefit from high-quality, inclusive provision, which precisely meets their learning needs and supports them to progress well"; "Leaders should ensure that staff use assessment information effectively to rapidly address gaps in pupils' knowledge, and to enable pupils to make connections that deepen their learning across the curriculum"; "Building on recently improved rates of attendance, leaders should ensure that pupils' attendance levels rapidly move closer to national averages"; "Governors should ensure that they robustly hold leaders to account for pupils' academic outcomes, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those with other barriers to their learning".

From the headteacher's welcome: "On behalf of children, staff and Governors, I would like to welcome you to our wonderful school. Blackmoor Park Junior School (BPJS) is a vibrant, inclusive school where we are committed to providing a welcoming, safe and stimulating environment in which we can nurture the achievements of every child."

The school runs a breakfast club from 7:30am and after-school care.

In 2025, 65% of Year 6 pupils at Blackmoor Park Junior School reached the expected standard in reading and 57% 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 (62% in reading, 57% in maths).

Across Liverpool, 89% of families were offered their first-choice primary school for 2026 entry, and 97% were offered one of the schools they named.

In 2026, families in Liverpool lodged 219 appeals against primary school offers; 83 reached a hearing and 5 succeeded (6% of those heard).

The nearest other state primary schools to Blackmoor Park Junior School are Blackmoor Park Infants' School (0.2 miles); St Paul's and St Timothy's Catholic Infant School (0.5 miles, Good); St Paul's Catholic Junior School (0.5 miles, Good, 65% reading, 55% maths); and Knotty Ash Primary School (0.6 miles, 77% reading, 77% maths).

Blackmoor Park Junior School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 2 schools.

45 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Blackmoor Park Junior School (as of April 2026): 53% would recommend the school, 67% say their child is happy there and 42% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (71%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (42%).

9.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 96 pupils (28%) received SEN support and 13 (3.8%) 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 a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

Blackmoor Park Junior School had 7 teachers in 2026, one for every 50 pupils: fewer teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Broad Green Rail Station, about 1.3 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Kendal Park (adjacent), 40 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Blackmoor Park Junior School stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Blackmoor Park Junior School issued 7 suspensions, 2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Blackmoor Park Junior School are Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School (0.2 miles), Broughton Hall Catholic High School (0.3 miles) and St Edward's College (0.7 miles).