Merton Bank 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
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Merton Bank Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 8 May 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Merton Bank 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, 28% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
- Ofsted's latest outcome was Requires improvement (8 May 2024); of the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens, 3 are Good and 5 have no current grade.
- Reception 2026 drew 14 first-choice applications for 21 offers, 0.7 first choices per offer, the 2nd lowest of 53 St. Helens primary schools.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 47.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 33.5% 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
- Roper Street, St Helens, WA9 1EJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 193 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 47.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 8 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud of their school.”
- “They told inspectors that they like the changes that the school has introduced, such as the new behaviour policy and ‘reading nooks’.”
- “The school is a calm, inviting place where pupils feel valued.”
To improve
- “However, the wider curriculum is not designed carefully enough for pupils across the school to make sufficient progress.”
- “Some pupils do not achieve as well as they should.”
- “However, some pupils do not consistently know the meanings of the words that they read.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 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) | 28% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 14 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.
- Parish Church of England Primary School, St Helens 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Allanson Street Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Ashurst Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Broad Oak Community Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published