Roscoe Primary School, Liverpool

Ofsted's report card from its 9 June 2026 inspection grades Roscoe 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. "Leaders are ambitious for pupils to achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Overall, pupils attend well."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have put in place a suitably broad, ambitious and logically ordered curriculum."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children get off to a great start in the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that all pupils are welcomed and valued at the school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders make decisions in the best interests of pupils, informed by the school's context."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have established a suitably ambitious and broad programme for personal development and wellbeing."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should strengthen the precision of checks on learning so that misconceptions in pupils' foundational knowledge are identified and addressed promptly, enabling all pupils to achieve as well as they could, particularly in handwriting and spelling"; "Leaders should continue to strengthen the consistency with which high expectations for respectful and positive behaviour are applied across the school".

From the headteacher's welcome: "Welcome to Roscoe Primary School , a proud member of Northern Schools Trust . We are delighted to introduce you to our exceptional school, where excellence is at the heart of everything we do. Our carefully crafted curriculum and wide range of extracurricular activities are designed to nurture every child's success."

The school runs a breakfast club and after-school care, from £1 per session.

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils at Roscoe Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 75% 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 (72% in reading, 62% in maths).

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 19 families put Roscoe Primary School as their first choice and 30 named it as one of their preferences, for 20 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 Roscoe Primary School are St Matthew's Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 73% reading, 67% maths); Lister Infant and Nursery School (0.5 miles, Good); Lister Junior School (0.5 miles, Good, 65% reading, 72% maths); and Broad Square Community Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 80% reading, 82% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Roscoe Primary School.

Roscoe Primary School is one of 8 schools run by Northern Schools Trust, an academy trust.

51.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 69 pupils (34%) received SEN support and 9 (4.4%) 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.

The nearest railway station is Wavertree Technology Park Rail Station, about 1.8 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Adshead Road (adjacent), 250 metres away.

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

In 2024/25, Roscoe Primary School issued 5 suspensions, 2.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Roscoe Primary School are West Derby School (0.4 miles), Holly Lodge Girls' College (0.5 miles) and St Edward's College (0.9 miles).