St Stephen's CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
St Stephen's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 June 2023. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
St Stephen's CofE 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 Reception in 2026, every applicant was offered a place: 15 first-choice applications for 20 offers, with 5 offers going to families who ranked the school second or lower.
- For Reception in 2026, 5 of the 39 applications (13%) came from families living outside Bolton, and 3 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 53% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the lowest 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
- Bent Spur Road, Kearsley, Bolton, BL4 8PB
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 183 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, are happy to attend this caring school.”
- “Everyone is made to feel welcome.”
- “Pupils and children said that they feel safe and that they value having adults in school who they can talk to.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders are still finalising their curriculum thinking.”
- “As a result, some teachers are not sufficiently clear about the knowledge that will be most useful for pupils’ subsequent learning.”
- “However, in a few subjects this is not the case.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 July 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) | 53% | 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: 15 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 15 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.
- Spindle Point Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kearsley West Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Saviour CofE Primary School, Ringley 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Prestolee Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St John Church of England Primary School, Farnworth 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Gregory's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi Good
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mytham Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published