The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Woodlands Primary School

URN 104990 · Primary · Community school · Wirral

Hollybank Road, Birkenhead, CH41 2SY

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 47 families named Woodlands Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 44 offers.

That is 1.07 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 82% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 82% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.86 in 2021–2022 and 1.07 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 47 69 44 1.07
2024 46 62 43 1.07
2023 40 55 41 0.98
2022 32 48 36 0.89
2021 34 49 41 0.83
2020 36 56 43 0.84
2019 35 52 39 0.90
2018 45 65 44 1.02
2017 38 63 44 0.86
2016 36 75 40 0.90
2015 41 79 44 0.93
2014 43 77 45 0.96

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 18 May 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 53.0% 2.0% 102.0 103.0
2023/24 45.0% 0.0% 100.0 102.0
2022/23 46.0% 0.0% 102.0 101.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 18.5 14.6 1.0 2.9 21.1%
2023/24 21.1 15.5 1.0 4.6 26.5%
2022/23 17.2 17.2 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 15.2 14.4 0.0 0.8 5.3%
2020/21 15.7 15.2 0.0 0.5 3.2%
2019/20 16.0 15.1 0.0 0.9 5.6%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Woodlands Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.