St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided 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 🔒
St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 March 2023. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic 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
- Every applicant for a Reception place in 2025 was offered one, as at 36 of the 52 other St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 35 first-choice applications for 37 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 53% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result of 53% was 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Chain Lane, Blackbrook, St Helens, WA11 9QY
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 381 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 March 2023
Strengths
- “They told inspectors that leaders and staff care for them well.”
- “Pupils benefit from high-quality emotional support when they need it.”
- “They trust staff to help them with any worries they may have.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not attend school as often as they should.”
- “In a small number of subjects, leaders’ curriculum improvements are more recent.”
- “Their approaches to assessment are also at an earlier stage.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 April 2023 (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) | 53% | 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: 35 first-preference applications, 37 offers in total, 35 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.
- Ashurst Primary School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Merton Bank Primary School 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Legh Vale Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Broad Oak Community Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Carr Mill Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parish Church of England Primary School, St Helens 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Allanson Street Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published