{"id":422928,"date":"2025-09-14T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422928\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:39:12","slug":"merseyside-areas-with-the-best-performing-primary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422928\/","title":{"rendered":"Merseyside areas with the best performing primary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can see how schools performed in your areaDavid Dubas-Fisher-LE<\/strong> and Liam Thorp<\/strong><\/a> Political Editor<\/p>\n

06:30, 14 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

\"ThisThis graph shows the proportion of year 6 pupils in Merseyside boroughs meeting the expected standard for reading, writing and maths <\/p>\n

Children\u2019s reading, writing and maths skills are below pre-pandemic levels across Merseyside, with only around half of Year 6 pupils in some areas meeting expected standards. Just 55% of 11-year-olds in both Liverpool and Sefton<\/a> met the expected standards in each of their Key Stage 2 reading, writing and maths assessments in the 2024\/25 academic year.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to the latest figures from the Department for Education. They\u2019re below the national average of 62% and are the joint sixth lowest proportions of any local authority area in England.<\/p>\n

The performance is also down from 62% and 63% respectively in 2018\/19, the last full academic year before the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Wirral<\/a> has only fared slightly better with 56% of 11-year-olds meeting the expected standards in each of the three subjects, down from 60% before the pandemic.<\/p>\n

St Helens<\/a> and Knowsley<\/a> have our region\u2019s best results, with 61% of Key Stage 2 pupils meeting the expected standards.<\/p>\n

Those were down from 66% and 63% before the pandemic, however.<\/p>\n

\"ThisThis graph shows the proportion of year 6 pupils in Merseyside boroughs meeting the expected standard for reading, writing and maths <\/p>\n

Across England, there remains a postcode lottery for reading and writing skills, with the new official figures showing that half of pupils are failing to meet standards in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n

The proportion of 11-year-olds reaching expected Key Stage 2 standards continued to improve this year, though are still behind pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n

Figures from the Department for Education show that 62% of Year 6 pupils in England made the grade in all three subjects in the 2024\/25 academic year.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s up slightly from 61% in 2023\/24 and 59% in 2021\/22, the first year assessments were made after the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The proportion is still behind 2018\/19 though, when 65% of 11-year-olds met expected standards in all three subjects.<\/p>\n

You can see how primary schools perform in your local area using our special map below.<\/p>\n

Hover your mouse over the borough you are interested in to see the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can see how schools performed in your areaDavid Dubas-Fisher-LE and Liam Thorp Political Editor 06:30, 14 Sep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,2266,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-422928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115201046716447693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}