Longmoor Community Primary School, Liverpool
Longmoor Community Primary School is a primary school for pupils aged 3 to 11 in Liverpool. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in October 2019. Ofsted's ungraded inspection in July 2024 did not change this grade. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 58th-highest of the 177 schools in Liverpool with published results, and 5,775th of 14,452 across England. It was 95% full in 2025.
- SATs results
- In line with England
- Ofsted
- Good (2019)
- Demand
- Every first choice offered
- 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
Longmoor Community Primary School in detail
Longmoor Community Primary School in its own words
In its own words: "Our History curriculum aims to ensure that children gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain's past and that of the wider world; in particular how the Britain of today has been shaped by the events that came before."
Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, athletics, gymnastics, multi-sports, dance, drama, choir, coding, robotics and STEM.
Vision and values (school website)Clubs (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Results
In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils at Longmoor Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 80% 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 (87% in reading, 78% in maths).
Getting a place at Longmoor Community Primary School
For September 2026 entry, 49 families put Longmoor Community Primary School as their first choice and 96 named it as one of their preferences, for 54 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.
Admissions history and your chances at Longmoor Community Primary School
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Longmoor Community Primary School are Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 71% reading, 70% maths); Rice Lane Primary School and Nursery (0.6 miles, Good, 71% reading, 66% maths); Barlows Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 88% reading, 85% maths); and St Monica's Catholic Primary School (1 mile, Outstanding, 65% reading, 63% maths).
Longmoor Community Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary SchoolRice Lane Primary School and NurseryBarlows Primary SchoolSt Monica's Catholic Primary School
Who goes there
10.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Orrell Park Rail Station, about 630 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).
13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Longmoor Lane (adjacent), 60 metres away.
The area around the school
Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Longmoor Community Primary School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.
Suspensions and exclusions
Longmoor Community Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Longmoor Community Primary School are Archbishop Beck Catholic College (0.3 miles), The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco (1.1 miles) and Dixons Fazakerley Academy (1.3 miles).
Archbishop Beck Catholic CollegeThe Salesian Academy of St John BoscoDixons Fazakerley Academy
Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; 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
Location
Every family who put it first was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance did not limit places that year.
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoThis judgement is from October 2019, 7 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
Latest (ungraded) inspection: The school remains Good, but Ofsted raised concerns; its next inspection will be a full graded one.
Ofsted's report, in its own words
What is it like to attend this school?
Pupils are full of life at this school. They are confident, charming and cheerful. They know that staff look after them well, which helps pupils to feel safe and secure. They get along with each other, behave well and give new people a warm welcome. It is a happy place to be.
The school is ambitious for what pupils should learn. This includes for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Pupils achieve well in some subjects. However, the school's aspirations for what pupils will learn in some other subjects have not been fully realised. This is because the school is in the early stages of redeveloping and improving many subject curriculums.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
The school places a high importance on early reading. It is front and centre of the school's curriculum thinking. Children learn initial sounds in the Nursery class and are prepared well for the school's phonics programme once they start in the Reception Year. Phonics is taught consistently well by trained staff. The school provides sharply focused additional catch-up support for pupils that need it. Pupils often read books that are matched to their learning needs. Many pupils quickly become confident, able readers.
The school recently completed an initial review of its overarching curriculum. Although the school has a broad and balanced curriculum in place, it has rightly identified that there are some deficiencies in the design and delivery of several subject curriculums, including in the early years. These deficiencies have caused pupils to develop some gaps in their learning in some subjects. That said, pupils do still achieve well in some other subjects.
From Ofsted's July 2024 ungraded inspection report: the opening paragraphs of each section, quoted word for word. Read the full report Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ofsted Insights
Ofsted rated this school Good at its October 2019 inspection.
Rated Outstanding for
Behaviour & attitudes.
Rated Good for
Quality of education, Personal development, Leadership & management, Early years.
At a Glance
25.5%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2024/25KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 87% to 80% (2024 to 2025). Maths has remained stable at around 80% (2024 to 2025). Writing has remained stable at around 77% (2024 to 2025).
Class Sizes
26.4
Avg class size
27.8
Infant (KS1)
28.5
KS2
16
Total classes
2025/26 academic year
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools
Keep up with Longmoor Community Primary School
Term dates
Longmoor Community Primary School is a community school, so its term dates are set by Liverpool. Training (INSET) days, when pupils are not in school, vary by school: check the school's own calendar.
2026 to 2027
- Autumn term: Tuesday 1 September to Friday 18 December 2026 (half term Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2026)
- Spring term: Monday 4 January to Friday 26 March 2027 (half term Monday 15 February to Friday 19 February 2027)
- Summer term: Monday 12 April to Wednesday 21 July 2027 (half term Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2027)
Getting There
Train Stations
Bus Stops
Free school transport
Check free transport to Longmoor Community Primary School from your postcode →
You apply to the council where you live. Longmoor Community 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
- 63
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 15
- Children hurt
- 14
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 63 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 15 serious and 48 slight.
14 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 7 on foot, 2 on a bicycle and 5 in a vehicle or otherwise.
9 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.
Commute and house prices
Your chances of a place at Longmoor Community Primary School
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
95%
Near capacity
401 pupils
420 places
19 spare places 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: Every first choice offered
Inspection History(7)
Ungraded inspection: The school remains Good, but Ofsted raised concerns; its next inspection will be a full graded one.
SEND & SEN Provision
SEN Overview
58
SEN Support
14
EHC Plans
16.8%
of Total Pupils
2026 academic year
Provision & Specialist Facilities
Pupils by Need Type
Pupil Demographics
Ethnicity
2026 academic year
Key Indicators
428
Total Pupils
229
Boys
199
Girls
2026 academic year
Workforce
19
Teachers
22.5:1
Pupil-teacher ratio
£53,999
Mean salary
2026 data
School Funding
£5,441
Per pupil
£2471k
Total funding
£145k
Pupil premium
2025-26 financial year allocations
Pupil Absence2024/25
6.4%
Overall absence
19.8%
Persistent absence
358
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
Longmoor Community Primary School
Questions parents ask about Longmoor Community Primary School
What are SATs results like at Longmoor Community Primary School?
Of the pupils at Longmoor Community Primary School who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 80% reached the expected standard in reading and 80% did so in maths.
What is Longmoor Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?
Longmoor Community Primary School's most recent Ofsted inspection, in July 2024, was ungraded, so it gave no overall grade. At its last graded inspection, in October 2019, it was rated Good.
What is the catchment area for Longmoor Community Primary School?
No fixed boundary. When Longmoor Community 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 Longmoor Community Primary School?
Longmoor Community Primary School was close to full in 2025, at 95% of its capacity.
How big are the classes at Longmoor Community Primary School?
Classes at Longmoor Community Primary School average 26.4 pupils (2025/26).
How many pupils go to Longmoor Community Primary School?
Longmoor Community Primary School has around 428 pupils on roll. 26% are eligible for free school meals.
What is attendance like at Longmoor Community Primary School?
6.4% of sessions were missed at Longmoor Community Primary School in 2024/25. 19.8% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
How do I apply to Longmoor Community Primary School?
Apply through Liverpool's coordinated admissions process, naming Longmoor Community 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.
What are Longmoor Community Primary School's term dates?
Longmoor Community Primary School is a community school, so its term dates are set by Liverpool. In 2026 to 2027: Autumn term: Tuesday 1 September to Friday 18 December 2026 (half term Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2026); Spring term: Monday 4 January to Friday 26 March 2027 (half term Monday 15 February to Friday 19 February 2027); Summer term: Monday 12 April to Wednesday 21 July 2027 (half term Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2027).
How many road collisions happen near Longmoor Community Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 63 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 15 serious and 48 slight. 14 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 7 on foot, 2 on a bicycle and 5 in a vehicle or otherwise. 9 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 Longmoor Community Primary School?
Longmoor Community Primary School is at Hall Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, L9 0EU.
Sources: Liverpool term dates; Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)