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State primary · 3 to 11 · Mixed · 187 pupils

Well Lane Primary School

Park Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead, CH42 5PF · Wirral
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COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · RECEPTION 2027

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Ofsted: Inadequate · June 2023No 2025 resultsFewer first choices than places (2026)

Summary

The key facts, in one place
Inspection
Inadequate, June 2023
Size
187 pupils; 21 places a year; classes of 23
Run by
Rainbow Education Multi-academy Trust
Type
Academy sponsor led
Ages
3 to 11 · Mixed
Ofsted, June 2023The judgements from the school's latest inspection. Reports from November 2025 use Ofsted's new report card, with different headings; we show whichever the latest report uses.Read the report ↗
Quality of educationInadequate
Behaviour and attitudesInadequate
Leadership and managementInadequate
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At a glance

Against Wirral and England
This schoolWirralEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
23.4
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
60%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
16.3
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Reception place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
0.9
In line with Wirral
Wirral and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state primary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.Where these figures come from →

Overview

Getting in

  • 19 families put it first for 21 places; every one of them got in DfE, school applications and offers · Reception 2026
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Quality

  • Inadequate Ofsted · inspected 6 June 2023
  • We hold no published results for this school: it may be new, or have no pupils in the tested years.

Daily life

  • Classes average 23.4 pupils; 0.0% of classes have more than 30 DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
  • 16.3 pupils for each teacher DfE, school workforce · November 2025
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 88 m, rail 608 m DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
  • 24 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 6 serious) DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 9.9 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.3 (1 km square, background level) DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024

Who runs it

  • Rainbow Education Multi-academy Trust, with 9 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined July 2025
  • Opened as an academy (sponsored) on 1 July 2025 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced Well Lane Primary School (URN 105050) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 31 March 2025
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Getting in

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Offer day, year by year

EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Reception2025—————

Source: Council offer-day figures: Wirral Council, 2025 to 2025. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.

Applications and offers, DfE

EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Reception202621193319

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2026 to 2026. Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Inspections

DateKindOutcome
6 June 2023Graded inspectionInadequate

Source: Ofsted, 2023.

Daily life

Suspensions and exclusions

YearSuspensions per 100 pupilsPupils suspendedSuspensionsPermanent exclusions
2024/25——10
Schools with a similar intake2.2

Source: DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.

Class sizes and staff

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size23.42025/26
Classes over 30 pupils0.0%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher16.3November 2025

Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

Stops nearby

KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus88
rail608

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.

Road collisions within 500 m

YearCollisions
20252
20247
20235
20227
20213

Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 6 serious and 0 fatal in all; 7 involved a pedestrian, 6 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.

Air quality

PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO29.92024
PM109.72024
PM256.32024

Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.

Pupils

Who goes there

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals60%2025/26
First language other than English26%2025/26
SEN support37%2025/26
Education, health and care plan1.6%2025/26
Girls48%2025/26

Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

Who runs it

Who runs it

  • Rainbow Education Multi-academy Trust, with 9 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined July 2025
  • Opened as an academy (sponsored) on 1 July 2025 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced Well Lane Primary School (URN 105050) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 31 March 2025
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Area

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Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Wirral Council
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in Birkenhead and the Wirral league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.