Egremont Primary School, Wallasey

Ofsted's report card from its 17 March 2026 inspection grades Egremont Primary School on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils achieve well across the curriculum."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have high expectations for attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum."

Early years - Expected standard. "The early years curriculum is ambitious and carefully planned."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders identify the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) quickly and effectively."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate and shared view of the school's strengths and areas for development."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils develop a clear sense of right and wrong."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should make sure that teachers identify and rectify gaps and errors in pupils' handwriting, spelling and grammar so that pupils can write with increasing accuracy and fluency"; "Leaders should make sure that adults in the early years maximise their interactions with children, particularly those who are disadvantaged, so that they build detailed knowledge across the curriculum".

In 2025, 64% of Year 6 pupils at Egremont Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 64% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 73% and 69% in Wirral and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 76% in reading and 76% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 30 families put Egremont Primary School as their first choice and 57 named it as one of their preferences, for 33 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Egremont Primary School are Somerville Primary School (0.3 miles, Good, 75% reading, 68% maths); Riverside Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 53% reading, 57% maths); St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Wallasey (0.4 miles, Good, 70% reading, 70% maths); and Kingsway Primary School (0.5 miles, Requires improvement, 53% reading, 42% maths).

Egremont Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Egremont Primary School is one of 13 schools run by Oak Trees Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

30 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Egremont Primary School (as of April 2026): 87% would recommend the school, 87% say their child is happy there and 67% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (90%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (67%).

63.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 60 pupils (21.8%) received SEN support and 53 (19.3%) 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.

Egremont Primary School has a resourced provision for social, emotional and mental health needs: 36 places, 30 pupils on roll.

Egremont Primary School had 23 teachers in 2026, one for every 11 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Birkenhead Park Rail Station, about 1.4 miles away in a straight line.

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Parkside (opposite), 170 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Egremont 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 335 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Wirral (155), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Egremont Primary School issued 1 suspension, 0.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Egremont Primary School are Co-op Academy Oldershaw (0.9 miles); Weatherhead High School (1.2 miles); St Mary's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy (1.5 miles); and Purple Ruler (1.6 miles).