Longton Lane Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Longton Lane Community Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 March 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Longton Lane 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
- For Reception 2025, every applicant was offered a place, as at 36 of the 52 other St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 43 first-choice applications for 43 offers; 41 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 23 of the 86 applications for Reception 2026 came from families living outside St. Helens, and 12 offers went to them.
- 61% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Longton Lane, Rainhill, St Helens, L35 8PB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 284 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this vibrant and nurturing school.”
- “They know that staff expect them to work their hardest.”
- “They thrive on the school’s well-established learning routines.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, the strategies that teachers use to help pupils to remember do not work well enough.”
- “In these subjects, pupils struggle to recall what they have learned in the past and so cannot use it to help them when learning something new.”
- “However, a significant number, including some subject leaders, feel that decision-making does not take enough account of staff’s views or their workload and well-being.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 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) | 61% | 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: 43 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 41 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 Ann's Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Nutgrove Methodist Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Austin's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Oakdene Primary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John Vianney Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thatto Heath Community Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published