St Leo's and Southmead Catholic Primary School Serving the Community
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Prescot, Knowsley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Knowsley Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Leo's and Southmead Catholic Primary School Serving the Community is a primary school in Prescot, Knowsley for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 March 2023. Knowsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
St Leo's and Southmead Catholic Primary School Serving the Community 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 there were 35 first-choice applications for 35 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Its latest Ofsted outcome was School remains Good, dated 22 March 2023.
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Liverpool that have results.
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
- Lickers Lane, Whiston, Prescot, L35 3SR
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Knowsley
- Pupils on roll
- 229 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, and children in the early years, live up to the leaders’ vision to create happy, resilient and successful learners.”
- “Pupils welcome visitors warmly and engage with them confidently.”
- “They are eager to show off their school.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, teachers do not check well enough if pupils have remembered what they have been taught previously.”
- “This hinders how well some pupils learn over time.”
- “However, some weaker readers are not catching up as quickly as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 June 2023 (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) | 74% | 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: 35 first-preference applications, 35 offers in total, 35 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.
- Halsnead Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Whiston Willis Primary Academy 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Luke's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary and St Paul's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Willow Tree Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Prescot Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Gabriel's CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Evelyn Community Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published