High Lawn Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · 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 🔒
High Lawn Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 1 October 2024. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
High Lawn 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
- For 2026 Reception entry, there were 41 first-choice applications for 45 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 40th lowest of 90 Bolton primary schools.
- In 2026, 40 Reception offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place; 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 24.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.2 across 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
- Holden Avenue, Sharples, Bolton, BL1 7EX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 492 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 1 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend High Lawn Primary school.”
- “They are keen to learn new things.”
- “They are polite and well mannered.”
To improve
- “Across the school, there are a few subjects which are still underdeveloped.”
- “This includes aspects of the early years curriculum.”
- “In these subjects, the school has not made clear enough the knowledge that pupils need to learn.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 November 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) | 61% | 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: 41 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 40 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 Oaks Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Holy Infant and St Anthony RC Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sharples Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE Primary School, Astley Bridge 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St John the Evangelist RC Primary School, Bromley Cross, Bolton 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eagley Infant School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eagley Junior School 1.0 mi Not judged
- St Columba's RC Primary School 1.1 mi Good