Sutton Manor 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 🔒
Sutton Manor 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 6 December 2022. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Sutton Manor 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
- 36.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens is 21.5%.
- Reception 2026 had 22 first-choice applications for 24 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 19th lowest of 53 St. Helens primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in 1 of the 2 earlier years.
- In 2024/25 its reading, writing and maths result was the lowest of 8 schools: this one and 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens that have results.
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
- Forest Road, Sutton Manor, Forest Road, St Helens, WA9 4AT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 December 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at Sutton Manor.”
- “Pupils told inspectors that they feel safe.”
- “They know that they can go to a trusted adult if they have any worries.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, the curriculum is less well developed.”
- “Where this is the case, it is not clear what pupils must know and remember.”
- “Consequently, some pupils are not able to recall their previous learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 January 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) | 47% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 22 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 Theresa's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willow Tree Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Sherdley Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John Vianney Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eaves Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oakdene Primary Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Ann's Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published