Rivington Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · St Helens, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.501 miles
Published by St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rivington Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 March 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Rivington 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 2025 | 0.501 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.501 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 16 St. Helens primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 45 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 28 offers went to first-choice families and 17 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- For Reception 2026, the 1.6 first choices per offer was the 2nd highest of 53 St. Helens primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 59% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other St. Helens schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Tennis Street North, Dentons Green, St Helens, WA10 6LF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 234 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), do well in all aspects of their development at this school.”
- “Pupils come into school with smiles on their faces, happy to see their friends and staff.”
- “They said that their school is ‘one big family’.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, in a small number of subjects, the curriculum is new.”
- “In these cases, there are gaps in what pupils need to know to access their current learning.”
- “This means children do not learn all that they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 April 2024 (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) | 59% | 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: 45 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 28 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 St. Helens.
- Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bleak Hill Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Parish Church of England Primary School, St Helens 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published