School profile
Overchurch Junior School
54 Moreton Road, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, CH49 4NS
Overview
Overchurch Junior School is a state-funded school (academy sponsor led) in Wirral, North West, for pupils aged 7–11. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy sponsor led
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Phase of education
- Primary
- Age range
- Ages 7–11
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 412
- Pupils on roll
- 352
- URN
- 150120
Admissions
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Academy trust or group
- LEADING LEARNERS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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School places
DfE school capacity survey · May 2025 (2024/25)
- Capacity at survey date
- 412
- Pupils on roll
- 350
- Unfilled places at survey date
- 62
A dated snapshot from the Department for Education school capacity survey, separate from the school details above. Unfilled places at the survey date do not mean places are currently available for admission. About this data
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Primary
2024/25 results
Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard
- School
- 56%
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 88
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- 6%
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 88
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 20 October 2021 · Published 30 November 2021
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, Overchurch Junior School. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- 54 Moreton Road, Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, CH49 4NS
- Local authority
- Wirral
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