Stanton Road Primary School, Wirral

Ofsted's report card from its 27 January 2026 inspection grades Stanton Road 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. "Pupils leaving this school usually achieve outcomes in national tests similar to those seen nationally."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils attend school regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders understand clearly how well the curriculum is working across the school."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children in the early years get a positive and secure start to school life."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have a secure understanding of the barriers that pupils may face."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "The school's leaders understand the strengths of the school and know where improvement is still needed."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils benefit from a well-designed personal development programme that helps them grow into confident, responsible young people."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders should refine their use of information about the performance of different vulnerable groups of pupils so that staff set pertinent targets which improve the progress of these groups of pupils further. • Leaders should embed their refinements to the key stage 2 curriculum to ensure that vulnerable groups of pupils achieve highly, particularly in reading, writing and mathematics".

In 2025, 66% of Year 6 pupils at Stanton Road Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 76% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 73% and 69% in Wirral and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 76% in reading and 76% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 24 families put Stanton Road Primary School as their first choice and 62 named it as one of their preferences, for 27 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 Stanton Road Primary School are Poulton Lancelyn Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 89% reading, 92% maths); Brackenwood Infant School (0.6 miles, Outstanding); Brackenwood Junior School (0.6 miles, Good, 93% reading, 91% maths); and St Andrew's CofE Primary School (0.8 miles).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Stanton Road Primary School.

Stanton Road Primary School is one of 13 schools run by Oak Trees Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

36 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Stanton Road Primary School (as of April 2026): 92% would recommend the school, 92% say their child is happy there and 40% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (92%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (40%).

7.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 42 pupils (14.9%) received SEN support and 30 (10.6%) 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 social, emotional and mental health needs.

Stanton Road Primary School has a resourced provision for autism: 12 places, 3 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Port Sunlight Rail Station, about 840 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).

17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Stanton Road (near), 140 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Stanton Road 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 70 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Wirral (155).

In 2024/25, Stanton Road Primary School issued 7 suspensions, 2.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Stanton Road Primary School are Wirral Grammar School for Boys (0.4 miles), Wirral Grammar School for Girls (0.4 miles), Co-op Academy Bebington (0.7 miles) and St John Plessington Catholic College (1 mile).