St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School, Liverpool

Ofsted's report card from its 6 May 2026 inspection grades St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School on 7 areas: 2 expected standard and 5 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils' needs are identified early and with increasing accuracy."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders provide a well-structured programme that promotes pupils' personal development and wellbeing effectively."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Although published outcomes show some improvement, particularly in writing, this is not reflected consistently in pupils' current work across the curriculum subjects."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Attendance remains a concern and is below national averages."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Teaching and curriculum implementation are not consistently secure across the school."

Early years - Needs attention. "Since the last inspection, leaders have taken positive steps to strengthen the early years provision."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Leaders have not yet secured consistent improvement in the quality of education across the school."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure greater consistency in the delivery of the curriculum so that activities are carefully matched to the intended learning, enabling pupils to learn, remember and apply the knowledge and skills they are taught"; "Leaders should support staff to use assessment more precisely so that they identify and address gaps in pupils' understanding, take account of pupils' starting points, and adapt teaching effectively so that learning builds securely over time"; "Leaders should support staff to raise expectations of pupils' foundational skills, particularly in writing, so that pupils develop accuracy, fluency and pride in their work"; "Leaders should use attendance information to identify patterns and trends, especially for vulnerable groups, and ensure that strategies are evaluated rigorously so that they lead to sustained improvements over time"; "In the early years, leaders should improve the quality of adult-child interactions and ensure that provision supports children to develop secure foundations across all areas of learning"; "Leaders and those responsible for governance should ensure that improvement strategies are sufficiently precise in addressing weaknesses in teaching. They should monitor the impact of their actions rigorously so that improvements are embedded quickly and consistently across the school".

The school runs a breakfast club and after-school care, from £4.00 per session.

In 2025, 66% of Year 6 pupils at St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 71% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 75% and 74% in Knowsley and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 50% in reading and 33% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 33 families put St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School as their first choice and 65 named it as one of their preferences, for 40 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 St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School are Millbrook Community Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 63% reading, 68% maths); Westvale Primary School (0.3 miles, Requires improvement, 69% reading, 69% maths); Kirkby CofE Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 69% reading, 74% maths); and Melling Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 78% reading, 91% maths).

St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

7.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Kirkby Rail Station, about 290 metres away (roughly a 4-minute walk).

22 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Delaware Crescent (n-bound), 70 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood St Michael and All Angels Catholic 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 2024/25, St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School issued 13 suspensions, 3.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School are All Saints Catholic High School (0.7 miles), Kirkby High School (0.9 miles) and Dixons Fazakerley Academy (1.4 miles).