St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · 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 Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 22 October 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
St Peter and St Paul 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
- In 2024/25, 13% of pupils reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%), while 61% met the expected standard (England 62%).
- For Reception 2026 there were 28 first-choice applications for 30 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of the pupils here, 18.3% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
- There are 25.3 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens is 19.9.
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
- Derwent Road, Haresfinch, St Helens, WA11 9AT
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 197 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 22 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at St Peter and St Paul’s primary thoroughly enjoy coming to school.”
- “The warm relationships that they have with the adults in school make them feel safe and happy.”
- “Through their positive attitudes, pupils demonstrate the school’s mission statement to ‘love, aspire and serve'.”
To improve
- “However, the school’s approach to writing in Years 3 to 6, lacks the precision of the rest of the curriculum.”
- “The small steps of learning that pupils should learn are not specific enough.”
- “This hinders staff in creating learning that helps pupils to build a fluid, automatic writing style.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 November 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) | 61% | 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: 28 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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.
- Carr Mill Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ashurst Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Parish Church of England Primary School, St Helens 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Merton Bank Primary School 1.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Holy Cross Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rivington Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary & St Thomas CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published