Brandwood Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Bolton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bolton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Brandwood Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 January 2023. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Brandwood 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 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
- 38.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 30.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Bolton.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 32 of the 88 other Bolton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 53 first-choice applications for 58 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25: 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Bolton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bolton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Brandwood Street, Brandwood Street, Bolton, BL3 4BG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 463 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 38.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 January 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders and staff place a strong emphasis on being a community school where all pupils, including children in the early years, are welcome, irrespective of their faith or background.”
- “Pupils and children benefit from encouraging and positive relationships with staff.”
- “They told inspectors that this makes them feel happy in school.”
To improve
- “In one or two subjects, leaders’ curricular thinking is less clear.”
- “In these subjects, leaders have not made the knowledge that pupils and children should learn obvious enough to teachers.”
- “Some staff do not know what content to teach and when this should be taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 March 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) | 56% | 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: 53 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 53 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 Bolton.
- The Olive Tree Primary School Bolton 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Ethelbert's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sunning Hill Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Haslam Park Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Bede Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Pikes Lane Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Essa Primary Academy 0.7 mi Not judged
- Gilnow Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published