Wargrave CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 2–11 · 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 🔒
Wargrave CofE Primary School is a primary school in Newton-le-Willows, St. Helens for ages 2–11 (voluntary controlled 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.
Wargrave CofE 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, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 figure of 57% was the lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens that have results.
- For Reception 2026 there were 53 first-choice applications for 57 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 31.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21% 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
- Bradlegh Road, Newton-le-Willows, WA12 8QL
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 424 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 26 November 2024
Strengths
- “Wargrave C of E Primary school’s values of truth, friendship and respect underpin the way that pupils here treat others.”
- “Pupils have warm relationships with adults in the school.”
- “The school has high expectations of what pupils can and should achieve.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, however, the precise knowledge that pupils should learn is not clear enough to staff.”
- “Where this is the case, the curriculum does not provide enough support and guidance for teachers to enable them to plan consistently meaningful learning activities.”
- “The school’s expectations for pupils’ handwriting and grammar are not consistently high enough across subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 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) | 57% | 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: 53 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 53 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.
- Newton-le-Willows Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- The District CofE Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lyme Community Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St James' Church of England Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grange Valley Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published