Sherdley Primary School

Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · 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

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Sherdley Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 January 2023. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.

Sherdley 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

In 2024/25, 54% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
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.
Reception 2026 had 53 first-choice applications for 57 offers, with 4 first-choice families (8%) not offered a place and 49 offers going to first-choice families.
17.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens is 36.4%.

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: Mill Lane, Sutton, St Helens, WA9 4HA
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Council: St. Helens
Pupils on roll: 429 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 17.5% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 21.4

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 18 January 2023

Strengths

“Pupils thrive at this popular and friendly school.”
“They are proud members of the Sherdley family.”
“Pupils feel safe, happy and well cared for.”

To improve

“However, in a small number of subjects, the most important concepts that pupils should learn are not emphasised well enough.”
“This hinders pupils’ ability to build on their prior learning.”
“Nevertheless, the strategies that staff use to support struggling readers are not implemented consistently well.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 March 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)	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: 53 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 49 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 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Willow Tree Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
St Theresa's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Robins Lane Community Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Sutton Oak CofE Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Sutton Manor Community Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published