Pleasant Street Primary School
General Information
- Address: Pleasant Street, Liverpool, L3 5TS – View on map
- Phone: 01517093802
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Neil Verdin
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 29 families put it first for 30 places – 10 for every 10 places. 86% of them were offered a place. 1 of the 30 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 11 · 2025 11 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 78
- % eligible for free school meals: 36.3%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Liverpool average)
- English as an additional language: 60% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 8% a year (Liverpool 13.5%, typical in England 13.9%) Low turnover
- 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. "Low turnover" means it's among the quarter of similar schools in England where teachers are most likely to stay.
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: 3.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 12.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Speech, language and communication 32 places · 32 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 25 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 13 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 9 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 64% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 7% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points above the Liverpool average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 61% against an expected 55%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 61%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 79% · Writing 64% · Maths 86% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 79%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 108
- Based on: 28 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 44th of 107 junior and primary schools in the area
- #43St Austin's Catholic Primary School65%
- =44Florence Melly Community Primary School64%
- =44Pleasant Street Primary School64%
- =44St Anne's Catholic Primary School64%
- =47St Cleopas' Church of England Primary Academy63%
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48th of 75 primary schools in Liverpool for Ofsted rating
- #46Phoenix Primary SchoolGood
- #47Pinehurst Primary SchoolGood
- #48Pleasant Street Primary SchoolGood
- #49Ranworth Square Primary SchoolGood
- #50Rice Lane Primary School and NurseryGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,032 (2024-25)
10th of 90 primary schools in Liverpool for spending per pupil
- #8Roscoe Primary School£9,157
- #9St Patrick's Catholic Primary School£9,149
- #10Pleasant Street Primary School£9,032
- #11Wavertree Church of England School£8,895
- #12Smithdown Primary School£8,770
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