Linacre Primary School
Thornton Road, Bootle, L20 5ED
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mrs Siobhan Bayliff
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Constituency
- Bootle
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 210
- Pupils on roll
- 134
- URN
- 104853
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01519221466
About this school
Linacre Primary School is a community primary school in Bootle. It teaches children aged 3 to 11 and has 134 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. Each area of the school's work is graded on a five-point scale, and safeguarding is judged separately.
- Inclusion
- Urgent improvement
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
- Early years
- Urgent improvement
- Safeguarding
- Met
Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern: special measures.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 24 | 21 | 24 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 21% | 33% | 17% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Expected standard in reading | 38% | 52% | 38% |
| Expected standard in maths | 42% | 57% | 46% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 42% | 43% | 38% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 99.0 | 100.0 | 98.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 100.0 | 99.0 | 98.0 |
| Reading progress | +0.40 | - | - |
| Writing progress | +1.00 | - | - |
| Maths progress | +1.20 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Linacre Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Sefton average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 21% | 56.9% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 33% | 55.9% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 17% | 57.3% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 8.7% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 10.2% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 11% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 148 |
| 2023/24 | 139 |
| 2024/25 | 132 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Linacre Primary School compares
Linacre Primary School ranked 69th of 69 primary schools in Sefton for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 5% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 5% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 17% | 11% | 59.2% | 134 | — |
| King's Lander Primary Academy | 60% | 5.2% | 43.7% | 234 | 0.3 miles |
| St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School | 52% | 6.5% | 52.8% | 413 | 0.3 miles |
| Thomas Gray Primary School | — | 9.4% | 73.5% | 318 | 0.3 miles |
| All Saints Catholic Primary School | 52% | 5.2% | 49.4% | 312 | 0.4 miles |
| Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School | 39% | 6.6% | 56.4% | 440 | 0.5 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
Inspection history
-
Graded inspection report20 January 2026
- 16 May 2023
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 59.17%
- English as an additional language
- 31.8%
- Overall absence
- 10.96%
- Persistent absence
- 42.42%
Location
Nearby schools
-
King's Lander Primary Academy0.3 miles
Primary · Liverpool
-
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School0.3 miles
Primary · Liverpool
-
Thomas Gray Primary School0.3 miles
Primary · Bootle
-
All Saints Catholic Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · Bootle
-
Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School0.5 miles
Primary · Bootle
Other schools in Bootle
Linacre Primary School ranks 12th of the 12 ranked primary schools in Bootle.
- All Saints Catholic Primary School Primary
- Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School Primary
- Holy Spirit Catholic Academy Primary
- Linacre Primary School Primary
- Netherton Moss Primary School Primary
- Our Lady of Walsingham Primary School Primary
- Springwell Park Community Primary School Primary
- St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Primary
- St Monica's Catholic Primary School Primary
- St Oswald's Church of England Primary School Primary
- St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School Primary
- The Grange Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Linacre Primary School teach?
- Linacre Primary School teaches children aged 3 to 11. It is a primary school in Bootle.
- Who is the headteacher of Linacre Primary School?
- The headteacher of Linacre Primary School is Mrs Siobhan Bayliff, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Linacre Primary School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Linacre Primary School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Linacre Primary School?
- Linacre Primary School has 134 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 11.
- Is Linacre Primary School full?
- Linacre Primary School has capacity for 210 pupils and 134 on roll (64%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Linacre Primary School a faith school?
- No. Linacre Primary School has no designated religious character.
- Does Linacre Primary School have a nursery?
- Yes. The schools register records Linacre Primary School as having nursery classes.
- How have Linacre Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 21% in 2022/23 and 17% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Linacre Primary School rank locally?
- Linacre Primary School ranked 69th of 69 primary schools in Sefton for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 5% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 5% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Linacre Primary School's absence rate?
- Linacre Primary School's overall absence rate is 11% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Linacre Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Linacre Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 29 June 2026.