St Austin's 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 Austin's 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 25 May 2022. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
St Austin's 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, but places ran out in 1 of the 2 earlier years, when a last distance was published.
- Reception 2026 had 29 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 27 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 46% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result of 46% was the 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
- Heath Street, St Helens, WA9 5NJ
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 216 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 May 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to belong to St Austin’s Catholic Primary School.”
- “They are attentive in class, behave well and show respect towards each other and adults.”
- “They enjoy attending the breakfast club, where they catch up with their friends.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, teachers do not check regularly enough to see if pupils have gaps in their knowledge.”
- “This hinders teachers from designing learning that builds on what pupils already know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 July 2022 (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) | 46% | 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: 29 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 27 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.
- Nutgrove Methodist Primary School 0.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Thatto Heath Community Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Vianney Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Longton Lane Community Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Devon Street 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eccleston Mere Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Ann's Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published