St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 5–11 · Prescot, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.145 miles
Published by St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Prescot, St. Helens for ages 5–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 12 March 2025. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
St Bartholomew'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 | 1.145 mi |
| 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 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.145 miles away, the 5th longest of the 16 St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- In 2024/25, 78% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 31% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 26 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Of the 64 applications for Reception 2026, 13 (20%) came from families living outside St. Helens, and 8 offers went to them.
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
- School Lane, Rainhill, Prescot, L35 6NN
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 279 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 12 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this close-knit school community.”
- “They arrive at school each day with a desire to learn new knowledge and to see their friends.”
- “Their positive attitudes towards their school show how happy and proud they are to be a part of the school community.”
To improve
- “However, in a very small number of instances, these checks are not as effective as they could be.”
- “This sometimes makes it difficult for the school to identify and address any gaps in pupils’ knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2025 (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) | 78% | 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: 26 first-preference applications, 26 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.
- Oakdene Primary Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Ann's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sutton Manor Community Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Theresa's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Longton Lane Community Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John Vianney Catholic Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willow Tree Primary School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Nutgrove Methodist Primary School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published