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Dovedale Community Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Community school
Herondale Road, Liverpool L18 1JX · dovedaleprimary.co.uk · 0151 733 4232
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Nov 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 66%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Liverpool 57%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 839
- 100% of 840 places
- Local authority
- Liverpool
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 8.7%
- First language not English
- 12.6%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 117 families put the school first and 120 places were offered; 88% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 120 | 117 | 1 | 88% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 116 | 109 | 0.9 | 89% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 120 | 114 | 1 | 91% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 120 | 107 | 0.9 | 91% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 120 | 75 | 0.6 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 66% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 11% the higher standard. Across Liverpool it was 57%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲66% | 62% | ||
| ▲11% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●107 | 106 | ||
| ●104 | 105 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Dovedale Community Primary School on 18 November 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
- Personal development and well-being: Strong standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Strong standard
- Inspected
- 18 Nov 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Strong standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Strong standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Strong standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Strong standard |
Previously: Improving, ungraded inspection, Mar 2024
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2024Ungraded inspectionImproving
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Mar 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective
What parents said
98% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (158 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 98%
- Positive
- 98%
- Replies
- 158
- 19% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 76% who raised concerns
based on 6 parents (4%) whose child was bullied
based on 27 parents (17%) with SEND