Thatto Heath 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 🔒
Thatto Heath Community Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 24 October 2023. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Thatto Heath 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
- 68% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
- Reception 2026 drew 60 first-choice applications for 66 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 40.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 31.9% across 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
- Hobart Street, Thatto Heath, St Helens, WA9 5QX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 631 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 24 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Thatto Heath Community Primary School embody the school’s values of being ready, respectful and safe.”
- “All pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), appreciate the strong relationships that they have with staff.”
- “Pupils told inspectors that they feel happy and safe in school.”
To improve
- “However, in a few other subjects, the school has not put secure enough systems in place to help teachers to check what pupils remember from their previous learning.”
- “On occasion, this hinders how well some pupils acquire new knowledge.”
- “On occasion, however, a small number of pupils do not access the same breadth and depth of curriculum knowledge as their peers.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 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) | 68% | 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: 60 first-preference applications, 66 offers in total, 60 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.
- St Austin's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Nutgrove Methodist Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St John Vianney Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Longton Lane Community Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Eaves Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published