Robins Lane Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · St Helens, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Robins Lane Community Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 July 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Robins Lane 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 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Free school meal eligibility is 25%, against a middle figure of 40.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
- Every applicant for Reception 2025 was offered a place, after places ran out in 2022 and 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 38 first-choice applications for 28 offers; 25 offers went to first-choice families, and 13 first-choice families (34%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 54% (England 62%) met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4th 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
- Kinmel Street, St Helens, WA9 3NF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 248 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thoroughly enjoy attending Robins Lane Community Primary School.”
- “They relish being part of this lively school community.”
- “Pupils value the school’s vibrant and exciting learning environment.”
To improve
- “In a very small number of subjects, the school has not identified the subject-specific words that pupils need to know to make sense of their learning.”
- “This means that teachers do not support pupils to develop key vocabulary sufficiently well.”
- “Pupils do not achieve as well in these subjects as they do in others.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 September 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) | 54% | 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: 38 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 25 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.
- Eaves Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sutton Oak CofE Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Allanson Street Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sherdley Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Willow Tree Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Merton Bank Primary School 1.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published