Voluntary aided school · Primary
Ellesmere Port · CH66 1NN · Cheshire West and Chester
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.5 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 130270
Rivacre Valley Primary School
Community school · Ellesmere Port · CH66 1LE
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
339
Local authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester, 339 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 30.1%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 130270
Location
- Address
- Rivacre Brow, Overpool
- Postcode
- CH66 1LE
- Town
- Ellesmere Port
- County
- Cheshire
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- District
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 339
- Boys / girls
- 180 / 159
- School capacity
- 310
- Capacity fill
- 339 / 310 (109%)
- Free school meals
- 30.1%
- FSM pupils
- 102
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Kate Docherty
- Telephone
- 01518327602
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2022-10-18
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 47%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 0%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0