Primary
Linacre Primary School
Thornton Road, Bootle, L20 5ED
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 134 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.8
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Nursery
- Yes
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 14.7
- Pupils per adult
- 9.1
- Pupils
- 133
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected January 2026
- AchievementUrgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviourUrgent improvement
- Curriculum and teachingUrgent improvement
- Early yearsUrgent improvement
- InclusionUrgent improvement
- Leadership and governanceUrgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeingNeeds attention
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections2
May 2023
Previous framework
Requires improvement
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentRequires improvement
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
June 2019
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
SATs results
17%
32 points below the Bootle average (49% across 12 schools)
98.0
4.6 below the Bootle average (102.6 across 12 schools)
12th of 12 by our score, among the primary schools in Bootle we can score - 13 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 98 |
| Average reading score | 98 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 17% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 21% |
| 23/24 | 33% |
| 24/25 | 17% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 99.0 |
| 23/24 | 100.0 |
| 24/25 | 98.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 100.0 |
| 23/24 | 99.0 |
| 24/25 | 98.0 |
Thornton Road, Bootle, L20 5ED
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Sefton admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Siobhan Bayliff
- Address
- Thornton Road, Bootle, L20 5ED
- Telephone
- 01519221466