Evelyn Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Prescot, Knowsley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.123 miles
Published by Knowsley Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Evelyn Community Primary School is a primary school in Prescot, Knowsley for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 May 2022. Knowsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Evelyn Community Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 2.123 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 Reception entry, the last child offered a place lived 2.123 miles away, the 2nd longest of 20 Knowsley primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- Reception 2026 had 27 first-choice applications for 34 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 7th lowest of 49 Knowsley primary schools.
- In Reception 2026, 26 offers went to first-choice families, 1 first-choice family (4%) was not offered a place, and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 79% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Knowsley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Evelyn Avenue, Prescot, L34 2SP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Knowsley
- Pupils on roll
- 250 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 May 2022
Strengths
- “Inclusion and kindness are notable features of this caring community primary school.”
- “Pupils arrive to school happily.”
- “They are welcomed by staff who know them well.”
To improve
- “However, pupils have not achieved as well as they should in the phonics screening check in Year 1.”
- “However, the number of pupils who pass the phonics screening check in Year 1 has been below average.”
- “Pupils in lower key stage 2 and key stage 1 sometimes make errors in their writing that are not addressed quickly enough.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 79% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 27 first-preference applications, 34 offers in total, 26 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Knowsley.
- Prescot Primary School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary and St Paul's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Luke's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Whiston Willis Primary Academy 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Halsnead Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Leo's and Southmead Catholic Primary School Serving the Community 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Willow Tree Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published