Corpus Christi 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 🔒
Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Corpus Christi 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 6 first-choice applications for 8 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 4th lowest of 53 St. Helens primary schools.
- For Reception 2026, every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 37% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
- There were 14.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.9 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
- Old Lane, Rainford, St Helens, WA11 8JF
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 127 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, benefit from a high-quality education at this small, family-orientated school.”
- “They arrive each day eager to learn.”
- “Friendly staff get to know pupils and their families well.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders are not clear about the order in which key vocabulary should be taught.”
- “This hinders some teachers in designing learning for pupils.”
- “However, a small number of staff are still honing their expertise to deliver some aspects of the phonics curriculum as leaders intend.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 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) | 37% | 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: 6 first-preference applications, 8 offers in total, 6 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.
- Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rainford CofE Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bleak Hill Primary School 3.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Julie's Catholic Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Rivington Primary School 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Carr Mill Primary School 3.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published