Kearsley West 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 🔒
Kearsley West 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 11 December 2024. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Kearsley West 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
- In 2026 every Reception applicant was offered a place, after places ran out in each of the 3 earlier years with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 27 first-choice applications for 27 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 81% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths figure was the 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Bolton that have results.
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
- Primrose Street, Kearsley, Bolton, BL4 9BZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 236 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 11 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this exceptionally nurturing school.”
- “Pupils conduct themselves impeccably in lessons and at social times.”
- “From the early years, they enjoy following wellestablished routines for learning.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, these strategies are not sufficient to ensure that pupils remember what they have learned previously.”
- “Consequently, some pupils do not build as well as they could on prior knowledge.”
- “At times, they find it difficult to understand how past and current learning fit together under the big themes of the subject.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 January 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) | 81% | 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: 27 first-preference applications, 27 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 Bolton.
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John Church of England Primary School, Farnworth 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Gregory's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.4 mi Good
- St Stephen's CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Prestolee Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Queensbridge Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St James CofE Primary School, Farnworth 0.9 mi Not judged
- All Saints CofE Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published