Clarendon 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 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Clarendon Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 March 2025. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Clarendon 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
- 33.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 27.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Bolton.
- Reception 2026 had 45 first-choice applications for 50 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 24% reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%), while 63% met the expected standard (England 62%).
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
- Recreation Street, Clarendon Primary School, Bolton, BL3 6SN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 454 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are rightly proud to attend this embracing, multi-cultural school.”
- “They truly embody the Clarendon motto of ‘Together, we shine’.”
- “Friendship, happiness and a love of learning permeate the school.”
To improve
- “However, the school’s published data for 2024 shows that the proportion of pupils who met the phonics screening check at the end of Year 1 was below the national average.”
- “As a result, they were not able to benefit fully from the school’s phonics curriculum.”
- “However, opportunities for pupils to learn how to set out and produce work independently are limited.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 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) | 63% | 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: 45 first-preference applications, 50 offers in total, 45 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.
- Bishop Bridgeman CofE Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter and St Paul RC Primary School a Voluntary Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sunning Hill Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St William of York Roman Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Olive Tree Primary School Bolton 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ss Simon & Jude CofE Primary School, Bolton 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Lever Edge Primary Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Pikes Lane Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published