Mab Lane Junior Mixed and Infant School
General Information
- Address: Mab Lane, Liverpool, L12 6QL – View on map
- Phone: 01512594282
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Laura Tracey
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 42 families put it first for 45 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 8 of the 45 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 8 · 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 156
- % eligible for free school meals: 49.1%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (more mixed than the Liverpool average)
- English as an additional language: 26% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 19.1% a year (Liverpool 13.5%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 25% moved to another school, 75% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Liverpool: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 8 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 4 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Liverpool, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 4.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 10.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Speech, language and communication
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 34.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 53 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 44 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 21 pupils
- Vision impairment: 2 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 72% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 14% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 13 percentage points above the Liverpool average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 71% against an expected 55%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 71%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 79% · Writing 79% · Maths 76% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 83%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 107
- Based on: 29 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 19th of 107 junior and primary schools in the area
- #17Gilmour Primary School74%
- #18Wellesbourne Community Primary School73%
- =19Mab Lane Junior Mixed and Infant School72%
- =19Much Woolton Catholic Primary School72%
- =19Our Lady of Good Help Catholic Primary School72%
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32nd of 75 primary schools in Liverpool for Ofsted rating
- #30Leamington Community Primary SchoolGood
- #31Longmoor Community Primary SchoolGood
- #32Mab Lane Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolGood
- #33Matthew Arnold Primary SchoolGood
- #34Middlefield Community Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,540 (2024-25)
18th of 90 primary schools in Liverpool for spending per pupil
- #16St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary and Nursery School£8,643
- #17Kingsley Community School£8,603
- #18Mab Lane Junior Mixed and Infant School£8,540
- #19Dovecot Primary School£8,532
- #20St Anne's Catholic Primary School£8,524
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