Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School, Runcorn
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 4 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
This school excels at helping every child succeed, particularly those who face extra challenges. Teachers are highly skilled at adapting lessons to meet individual needs, ensuring disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs achieve well alongside their peers. The school creates a warm, family-like community where children develop resilience, strong communication skills, and a secure understanding of right and wrong.
Key Strengths
- Strong progress in reading and mathematics, with disadvantaged pupils outperforming their national peers
- Exceptional support for pupils with special educational needs and disadvantaged pupils - staff skilfully adapt teaching to remove barriers to learning
- Well-designed, broad curriculum that builds systematically on prior knowledge with strong focus on vocabulary development
- Highly effective early years provision with excellent focus on language and communication skills
- Rich personal development programme including outdoor learning, competitions, and enrichment activities for all pupils
Areas for Improvement
- Proportion of pupils achieving higher standard in writing is below national average, though leaders are taking action to improve this
- Attendance rates are improving but not yet above the national average
- Year 4 multiplication check outcomes were low, though recent rapid improvements are not yet reflected in published data
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - the school has created an open and positive culture of safeguarding where all legal requirements are met and pupils are made safer and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
School choir competitions, cookery, craft, curling, bowls, outdoor learning and shelter building, trips to Chester Zoo and World Museum Liverpool
Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School is a strong school that prioritises foundational knowledge and provides a broad, ambitious curriculum with careful attention to vocabulary development and individual pupil needs. The school is particularly effective at supporting disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs, who consistently achieve well.
At a Glance
52.2%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 85% to 75%. Maths has declined from 82% to 72%. Writing has declined from 82% to 75%.
Class Sizes
27.4
Avg class size
22.3
Infant (KS1)
31.3
KS2
7
Total classes
3 classes with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
85%
Available places
178 pupils
210 capacity
32 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Runcorn
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Runcorn
Admissions Demand - Halton
Places available
1,614
Applications
1,258
Got 1st preference
96.2%
Got preferred school
99.5%
Primary admissions across Halton (2025/26)
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
5.73636%
Overall absence
14.67391%
Persistent absence
184
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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