Joshua Mangas

West Kirby St Bridget's CofE Primary School

  • Primary
  • Academy converter
  • Ages 4 to 11
  • Church of England

URN 152080 · Wirral · CHESTER DIOCESAN LEARNING TRUST

In Wirral

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest full inspection

22 October 2024
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Early years provision
Outstanding
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Full inspection (section 5)

From September 2024 until report cards began, full inspections gave key judgements but no overall grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Teachers

Against Wirral and England, primary schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

25.2

Wirral
19.9
England
21.2

4.0 higher than England.

Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.

Teacher sickness absence

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Wirral
5.0 days
England
5.0 days

Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.

Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Pupils on roll
420
Capacity
424
Type
Academy converter
Phase
Primary
Age range
4 to 11
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Trust
CHESTER DIOCESAN LEARNING TRUST
Opened
1 November 2025
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Wirral West
Special educational needs provision
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; HI - Hearing Impairment; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment; PD - Physical Disability; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty; PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Resourced provision
Resourced provision
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 10 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: St Bridget's Lane, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 3JT

Website: www.stbridgets.wirral.sch.uk/

Telephone: 01516257652

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Sources and corrections

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