Mytham Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Bolton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.335 miles
last distance offered: “2.335 miles” · Published by Bolton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Mytham Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 3 February 2023. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Mytham 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 | 2.335 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 2.335 miles away, the 6th longest of 36 Bolton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 27 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 24 offers went to first-choice families and 3 first-choice families (11%) were not offered a place.
- In Reception 2026, 8 of the 57 applications in all (14%) came from families living outside Bolton, and 0 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Mytham Road, Little Lever, Bolton, BL3 1JG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 323 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 29.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 3 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils feel valued at Mytham Primary School.”
- “Leaders have created a safe place for pupils to learn.”
- “Pupils arrive happy and they are keen to get their day underway.”
To improve
- “However, from time to time, teachers do not use the assessment information that they have as effectively as they could to address pupils’ misconceptions and adapt the delivery of the curriculum to recap important information.”
- “However, on occasions, staff do not make sure that a few pupils use their reading skills often enough to become fluent readers.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 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: 27 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 24 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 Matthew's CofE Primary School, Little Lever 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Teresa's RC Primary School a Voluntary Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Masefield Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Bowness Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Prestolee Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Blackshaw Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St John Church of England Primary School, Farnworth 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Gregory's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.1 mi Good