St John Vianney 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 John Vianney Catholic Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
St John Vianney 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 had 29 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 26 offers went to first-choice families and 3 first-choice families (10%) were not offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2025, as at 36 of the 52 other St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 80% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest 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
- Elton Head Road, Sutton Heath, St Helens, WA9 5BT
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 195 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 6 May 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this school.”
- “It is a place where everyone is welcome.”
- “Pupils live out the school’s values daily.”
To improve
- “However, some younger pupils do not gain the phonics knowledge that they need in a timely manner.”
- “This means that they have to catch up.”
- “However, the teaching of phonics is not as effective.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 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) | 80% | 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, 30 offers in total, 26 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 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Thatto Heath Community Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Austin's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Longton Lane Community Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eaves Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Ann's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sherdley Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sutton Manor Community Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published