St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Nr Wigan, 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 Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Nr Wigan, St. Helens for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 September 2023. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
St Mary'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
- In 2024/25, 88% 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.
- Reception 2026 drew 14 first-choice applications for 16 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- For Reception 2026, 5 of the 42 applications (12%) came from families living outside St. Helens, and 1 offer went to them.
- In January 2026, 6.8% of pupils were eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 24.5% 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
- St Mary's School, Birchley Road, Billinge, Birchley Road, Nr Wigan, WN5 7QJ
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 177 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils strive to reflect the school’s core value of respect.”
- “Everyone is made to feel welcome at the school, regardless of their differences.”
- “This helps pupils to feel happy.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects other than English and mathematics, the school curriculum does not set out in sufficient detail the key knowledge that pupils should learn from the Reception Year to the end of key stage 2.”
- “In these subjects, some pupils do not achieve as well as they should.”
- “However, a very small number of pupils with SEND struggle to access some learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 October 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) | 88% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 16 offers in total, 14 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.
- Billinge Chapel End Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Aidan's CofE Primary School Billinge 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Carr Mill Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ashurst Primary School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Garswood Primary and Nursery School 1.8 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Rectory CofE Primary School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published