Moorgate Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Bolton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.167 miles
last distance offered: “0.167 miles” · Published by Bolton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Moorgate Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Outstanding, from the inspection on 20 April 2023. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Moorgate 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 | 0.167 mi |
| 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
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.167 miles away, the shortest of 36 Bolton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (this one included).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and nearer than in 2022, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For 2026 Reception entry, there were 64 first-choice applications for 26 offers, 2.5 first choices per offer, the highest of 90 Bolton primary schools.
- In 2026, 26 Reception offers went to first-choice families and 38 first-choice families (59%) were not offered a place.
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
- Entwistle Street, Bolton, BL2 2RH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 325 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding Inspected 20 April 2023
Strengths
- “Moorgate Primary school is a place where pupils, and children in the early years, flourish.”
- “Staff have pupils’ best interests at heart.”
- “To this end, they have fostered mutually supportive relationships with families.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 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) | 67% | 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: 64 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 Bolton.
- Tonge Moor Primary Academy 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Castle Hill Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Bolton Parish Church, Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Valley Community Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Leverhulme Community Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Stephen and All Martyrs' CofE School, Lever Bridge 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Red Lane Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Matthew's CofE Primary School, Bolton 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published