Lyme Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Newton-le-Willows, 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 🔒
Lyme Community Primary School is a primary school in Newton-le-Willows, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 26 November 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Lyme 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
- In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2025, but places ran out in 1 of the 2 earlier years with a published outcome.
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 30 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (3%) was not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 33.9% of pupils, against a middle figure of 26.4% 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
- Lyme Street, Newton-le-Willows, WA12 9HD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 218 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 26 November 2024
Strengths
- “Lyme Community Primary School is a happy place where everyone is respected for who they are.”
- “The school’s ‘I can!’ values of inspire, challenge, achieve and nurture are lived out in all aspects of school life.”
- “These values help pupils to feel confident and to make the right choices which support their learning.”
To improve
- “However, occasionally, the activities that some pupils complete do not maximise their learning opportunities, and they do not learn as well as they could.”
- “The school’s provisional published data for 2024 shows that the proportion of pupils who met the expected standard in reading at the end of Year 6 was below the national average.”
- “However, on occasion, the books that a small number of pupils read do not align as well with the sounds they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 January 2025 (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) | 62% | 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: 30 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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.
- The District CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- St James' Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grange Valley Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Haydock English Martyrs' Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Newton-le-Willows Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wargrave CofE Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published