Holy Cross 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 🔒
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Holy Cross 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
- Reception 2026 drew 10 first-choice applications for 12 offers: 0.8 first choices per offer, the 10th lowest of 53 St. Helens primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 44% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
- There are 24.1 pupils per teacher, above the 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
- Charles Street, St Helens, WA10 1LN
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 197 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 20 January 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils play a large part in making this school the welcoming learning community that it is.”
- “They are keen to be recognised as ‘star of the week’ for meeting the school’s high expectations of behaviour.”
- “Older pupils are proud to be buddies for younger children in the school.”
To improve
- “However, pupils do not achieve as well as they should.”
- “This is because, over time, pupils have not benefited from learning that builds their knowledge securely, particularly in reading, writing and mathematics.”
- “In addition, some pupils who face barriers to their learning, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, do not receive the support that they need to succeed.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 March 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) | 44% | 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: 10 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 10 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 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Merton Bank Primary School 0.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Allanson Street Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rivington Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Queen's Park CofE/Urc Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published