Bleak Hill Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · St Helens, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.236 miles
Published by St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bleak Hill Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 30 April 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Bleak Hill 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 | 3.236 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 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2025 the last child offered a Reception place lived 3.236 miles from the school, the longest of the 16 St. Helens primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 92 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 85 offers went to first-choice families and 7 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- 7.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens is 33.5%.
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
- Hamilton Road, Windle, St Helens, WA10 6HG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 608 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 30 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish in the caring environment of this happy school.”
- “They thoroughly enjoy learning and value their education.”
- “Pupils work with tenacity and resilience to meet the ambitious goals that the school sets for them.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 June 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) | 65% | 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: 92 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 85 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 Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Julie's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rivington Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eccleston Mere Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published