Haydock English Martyrs' Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Haydock English Martyrs' Primary School is a primary school in St. Helens for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 18 June 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Haydock English Martyrs' 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.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years; the biggest move was from 2024 to 2025, when it was further from the school.
- Reception 2026 had 28 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 27 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (4%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Piele Road, Haydock, St. Helens, WA11 0JY
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 254 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 18 June 2024
Strengths
- “Haydock English Martyrs’ is a warm, welcoming and caring school.”
- “It sets high expectations for pupils’ achievements.”
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, have highly positive attitudes to their learning.”
To improve
- “However, at times, assessment strategies are not used as the school intends.”
- “This means that some pupils do not deepen their learning as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 July 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) | 59% | 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, 27 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.
- St James' Church of England Primary School 0.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grange Valley Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Lyme Community Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Legh Vale Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The District CofE Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Garswood Primary and Nursery School 1.6 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published