Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School, Liverpool
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School is a primary school for pupils aged 4 to 11 in Liverpool. It has a Roman Catholic religious character. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in July 2024. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 35th-highest of the 177 schools in Liverpool with published results, and 3,885th of 14,452 across England. It was 99% full in 2025.
- SATs results
- Above England average
- Ofsted
- Good (2024)
- Demand
- Oversubscribed
- Attendance
- Better than 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
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School in detail
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School in its own words
From the headteacher's welcome: "Click on the following links below to find out more about your upcoming year group"
Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, gymnastics, judo, choir, chess and Spanish.
Coming up: an admissions event on Tuesday 17 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.
All school open days in Liverpool
Headteacher's welcome (school website)Clubs (school website)
Source: The school's own website
Results
In 2025, 90% of Year 6 pupils at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 78% 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 (88% in reading, 83% in maths).
Getting a place at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School
For September 2026 entry, 71 families put Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School as their first choice and 137 named it as one of their preferences, for 60 places offered. That is 1.2 first choices for every place. 15 families who put it first were not offered a place there.
Admissions history and your chances at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School are Childwall Church of England Primary School (0.3 miles); Mosspits Lane Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 82% reading, 78% maths); King David Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 70% reading, 77% maths); and Christ The King Catholic Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 87% reading, 83% maths).
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 3 schools.
Childwall Church of England Primary SchoolMosspits Lane Primary SchoolKing David Primary SchoolChrist The King Catholic Primary School
Who goes there
3.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 4.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.
In 2026, 67 pupils (16.1%) received SEN support and 7 (1.7%) 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.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Mossley Hill Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.
11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Green Lane (adjacent), 190 metres away.
The area around the school
Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.
In August 2026, police recorded 169 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Liverpool (342).
Suspensions and exclusions
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School are Calderstones School (0.4 miles), King David High School (0.5 miles), Childwall Sports & Science Academy (0.7 miles) and The Blue Coat School (0.8 miles).
Calderstones SchoolKing David High SchoolChildwall Sports & Science AcademyThe Blue Coat School
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
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoOverall
Quality of Education
Behaviour & Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership & Management
Early Years
Ofsted's report, in its own words
What is it like to attend this school?
Pupils are happy to attend this school. The school's values of respect, responsibility and resilience underpin the work that goes on here each day. Pupils benefit from the kind and caring relationships that they have with staff and each other.
Pupils behave very well. They are fully aware of the rewards for, and consequences of, the choices that they make. Children in the Reception Year quickly absorb the routines and rules that help them to learn well in school. There is a calm and orderly atmosphere in and around the place, both in lessons and at playtimes.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
The school has created an ambitious curriculum. Pupils learn curriculum subject content well, especially in reading and mathematics. In 2023, pupils' attainment and progress in these subjects were among the highest nationally. Pupils do not learn as well in other subjects. The school has recognised this and, as such, it continues to refine other subject curriculums to ensure that pupils achieve highly.
The school has identified the important information that pupils will learn. It has carefully mapped out the key knowledge for most year groups in each subject. Teachers deliver subject content through well-thought-out lessons. These lessons build on pupils' prior understanding, so that the majority of pupils develop secure knowledge over time. However, in some areas of learning in the early years, the school has not thought carefully enough about the small steps of knowledge and key vocabulary that children should learn. This hampers teachers' efforts to ensure that children learn everything that they need to know.
From Ofsted's July 2024 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 July 2024 inspection.
Rated Good for
Quality of education, Behaviour & attitudes, Personal development, Leadership & management, Early years.
At a Glance
3.6%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2024/25KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has remained stable at around 90% (2024 to 2025). Maths has declined from 83% to 78% (2024 to 2025). Writing has remained stable at around 88% (2024 to 2025).
Class Sizes
29.7
Avg class size
29.8
Infant (KS1)
29.7
KS2
11
Total classes
2025/26 academic year
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools
Social & online
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Term dates
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic 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. Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic 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
- 22
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 8
- Children hurt
- 3
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 22 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 8 serious and 14 slight.
3 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
4 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
99%
Near capacity
416 pupils
420 places
4 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: Oversubscribed
Inspection History(6)
SEND & SEN Provision
SEN Overview
67
SEN Support
7
EHC Plans
17.7%
of Total Pupils
2026 academic year
Provision & Specialist Facilities
Pupils by Need Type
Pupil Demographics
Ethnicity
2026 academic year
Key Indicators
417
Total Pupils
212
Boys
205
Girls
2026 academic year
Workforce
19
Teachers
21.9:1
Pupil-teacher ratio
£51,117
Mean salary
2026 data
School Funding
£4,970
Per pupil
£2209k
Total funding
£20k
Pupil premium
2025-26 financial year allocations
Pupil Absence2024/25
3.0%
Overall absence
3.8%
Persistent absence
365
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
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School
Questions parents ask about Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School
What are SATs results like at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
Of the pupils at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 90% reached the expected standard in reading and 78% did so in maths.
What is Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School's Ofsted rating?
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School was rated Good at its most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2024. At its previous graded inspection in 2013 it was rated Outstanding.
What is the catchment area for Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
No fixed boundary. When Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic 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 Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School was close to full in 2025, at 99% of its capacity.
How big are the classes at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
Classes at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School average 29.7 pupils (2025/26).
How many pupils go to Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School has around 417 pupils on roll. 4% are eligible for free school meals.
What is attendance like at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
3% of sessions were missed at Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School in 2024/25. 3.8% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
How do I apply to Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
Apply through Liverpool's coordinated admissions process, naming Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic 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.
How many road collisions happen near Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 22 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 8 serious and 14 slight. 3 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 2 on foot and 1 on a bicycle. 4 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 Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School?
Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School is at Green Lane, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, L18 2EP.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)