Eccleston Mere 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 🔒
Eccleston Mere Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 2–11 (community school). St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Eccleston Mere 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 47 first-choice applications for 57 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 10 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 66% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
- In 2024/25, 2% reached the higher standard at the end of primary school (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
- Saleswood Avenue, Eccleston, St Helens, WA10 5NX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 397 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 25 November 2025
Strengths
- “Most pupils thrive at Eccleston Mere Primary School.”
- “Staff adapt their teaching to meet each pupil's needs.”
- “This helps most pupils to learn well and attend regularly.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils have gaps in their knowledge which hinder their progress.”
- “However, some younger pupils are less confident writers.”
- “These pupils do not form their letters correctly.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 February 2026 (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) | 66% | 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: 47 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 47 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 Julie's Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bleak Hill Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Austin's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Rivington Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published