Rudston Primary School
Liverpool, L16 4PQ · Liverpool local authority
Liverpool’s School Grade C better than 25% of towns in England
What stands out about Rudston Primary School
- Its own letter, D: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 9%)
- 44% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18 points below England’s schools
- 7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, June 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (43 of 43)
- Homes in its postcode sector (L16 4) sold for a median £300,000; Liverpool’s is £178,500
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 44%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 9% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Liverpool avg 57%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 104, maths 102 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 13 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Rudston Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (8), 2020 (9), 2021 (10), 2022 (4), 2023 (12), 2024 (7), 2025 (15). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Liverpool council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Liverpool council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Liverpool and Liverpool, side by side
2023–2025All 104 graded primaries in Liverpool. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Liverpool’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garston Church of England Primary School | A | 46% | 81% |
| Woolton Primary School | A | 14% | 80% |
| Our Lady's Bishop Eton Catholic Primary School | A | 4% | 79% |
| St Anthony of Padua Catholic Primary School | A | 5% | 77% |
| Bishop Martin Church of England Primary School, Woolton | A | 8% | 77% |
| Whitefield Primary School | A | 49% | 76% |
| Runnymede St Edward's Catholic Primary School | A | 8% | 76% |
| Booker Avenue Junior School | A− | 8% | 75% |
| Christ The King Catholic Primary School | A− | 11% | 75% |
| St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary and Nursery School | A− | 45% | 75% |
| St John's Catholic Primary School | A− | 28% | 75% |
| St Sebastian's Catholic Primary School and Nursery | A− | 36% | 72% |
| Longmoor Community Primary School | A− | 26% | 72% |
| Liverpool College | A− | 18% | 72% |
| Ranworth Square Primary School | A− | 50% | 71% |
| St Paschal Baylon Catholic Primary School | A− | 9% | 71% |
| Mab Lane Junior Mixed and Infant School | A− | 49% | 71% |
| Heygreen Primary School | A− | 77% | 71% |
| Croxteth Community Primary School | B+ | 65% | 70% |
| Our Lady of Good Help Catholic Primary School | B+ | 47% | 69% |
| King David Primary School | B+ | 3% | 69% |
| Emmaus Church of England and Catholic Primary School | B+ | 16% | 69% |
| Dovedale Community Primary School | B+ | 9% | 69% |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 55% | 68% |
| Arnot St Mary CofE Primary School | B+ | 51% | 68% |
| Wellesbourne Community Primary School | B | 56% | 67% |
| Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School | B | 31% | 67% |
| Childwall Church of England Primary School | B | 2% | 67% |
| Middlefield Community Primary School | B | 69% | 66% |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | B | 53% | 66% |
| The Beacon Church of England Primary School | B | 41% | 66% |
| Belle Vale Community Primary School | B | 45% | 65% |
| St Francis de Sales Catholic Junior School | B− | 41% | 64% |
| Florence Melly Community Primary School | B− | 41% | 64% |
| Mosspits Lane Primary School | B− | 12% | 64% |
| St Anne's (Stanley) Junior Mixed and Infant School | B− | 36% | 63% |
| Holy Name Catholic Primary School | B− | 31% | 63% |
| St Austin's Catholic Primary School | B− | 16% | 63% |
| St Michael's Catholic Primary School | B− | 50% | 63% |
| Our Lady and St Philomena's Catholic Primary School | B− | 58% | 63% |
| St. Margaret's Anfield Church of England Primary School | B− | 52% | 63% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery | B− | 35% | 62% |
| St Silas Church of England Primary School | B− | 58% | 62% |
| Pleasant Street Primary School | B− | 36% | 61% |
| Broadgreen Primary | B− | 31% | 61% |
| Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School | B− | 41% | 61% |
| Kingsley Community School | B− | 55% | 61% |
| King's Northway Primary Academy | B− | 31% | 61% |
| Banks Road Primary School | C+ | 45% | 60% |
| Greenbank Primary School | C+ | 35% | 60% |
| Broad Square Community Primary School | C+ | 38% | 60% |
| Much Woolton Catholic Primary School | C+ | 10% | 59% |
| St Cleopas' Church of England Primary Academy | C+ | 60% | 59% |
| St Matthew's Catholic Primary School | C+ | 29% | 58% |
| St Oswald's Catholic Primary School | C+ | 35% | 58% |
| St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School | C | 21% | 57% |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School | C | 64% | 57% |
| Smithdown Primary School | C | 54% | 56% |
| Knotty Ash Primary School | C | 27% | 56% |
| Barlows Primary School | C | 24% | 55% |
| Childwall Valley Primary School | C | 31% | 55% |
| Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School | C | 32% | 55% |
| St Nicholas Catholic Academy | C | 38% | 55% |
| Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School | C | 45% | 54% |
| New Park Primary School | C | 43% | 54% |
| Kirkdale St Lawrence CofE VA Primary School | C | 47% | 54% |
| Northcote Primary School | C− | 51% | 53% |
| Our Lady and St Swithin's Catholic Primary School | C− | 55% | 53% |
| St Finbar's Catholic Primary School | C− | 63% | 53% |
| Fazakerley Primary School | C− | 54% | 52% |
| Leamington Community Primary School | C− | 53% | 52% |
| Roscoe Primary School | C− | 53% | 52% |
| St Ambrose Catholic Academy | C− | 73% | 52% |
| Springwood Heath Primary School | C− | 35% | 50% |
| Stockton Wood Community Primary School | C− | 42% | 50% |
| Hunts Cross Primary School | C− | 27% | 49% |
| Matthew Arnold Primary School | C− | 65% | 49% |
| Holy Cross Catholic Primary School | C− | 42% | 49% |
| St Charles' Catholic Academy | C− | 35% | 49% |
| Blackmoor Park Junior School | C− | 29% | 48% |
| St Paul's Catholic Junior School | C− | 23% | 48% |
| Rice Lane Primary School and Nursery | C− | 34% | 48% |
| Monksdown Primary School | D | 37% | 47% |
| St Michael-in-the-Hamlet Community Primary School | D | 23% | 46% |
| St Gregory's Catholic Primary School | D | 39% | 45% |
| St Christopher's Catholic Primary School | D | 57% | 44% |
| Rudston Primary School | D | 7% | 44% |
| St Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary Academy | D | 48% | 44% |
| All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School | D | 42% | 43% |
| Lawrence Community Primary School | D | 56% | 41% |
| LIPA School | D | 38% | 41% |
| St Clare's Catholic Primary School | D | 40% | 39% |
| Blueberry Park | D− | 53% | 37% |
| Wavertree Church of England School | D− | 53% | 36% |
| Corinthian Community Primary School | D− | 42% | 35% |
| Windsor Community Primary School | D− | 57% | 35% |
| Kensington Primary School | D− | 50% | 34% |
| Gwladys Street Primary and Nursery School | D− | 52% | 33% |
| Dovecot Primary School | D− | 59% | 31% |
| The Trinity Catholic Academy | D− | 53% | 28% |
| Anfield Road Primary School | D− | 47% | 26% |
| Netherley Park Primary School | D− | 56% | 24% |
| St Hugh's Catholic Primary School | D− | 73% | 22% |
| Phoenix Primary School | D− | 47% | 21% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025464 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Rudston Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, June 2023.
Living near Rudston Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in L16 4, the school’s postcode sector
Liverpool property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in L16 4 sell for well over Liverpool’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
31 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Liverpool, L16 4PQ
Rudston Primary School: common questions
Is Rudston Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 9% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D), with 44% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, June 2023.
How hard is it to get into Rudston Primary School?
For September 2026, 43 families put Rudston Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 55 places were offered in all.
What is Rudston Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2023).
How much do houses cost near Rudston Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, L16 4, sold for a median £300,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (31 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Liverpool’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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