Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Bolton
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From Bolton Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 October 2024. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Our Lady of Lourdes RC 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 2025 | Not published |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 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, there were 32 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families (6%) were not offered a place.
- For Reception, the last child offered a place in 2024 lived nearer the school than the last child offered in 2023; no last distance was published for 2025.
- In 2024/25, 79% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 21% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Beech Avenue, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0BP
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 236 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils, and children in the early years, flourish in this welcoming and friendly school.”
- “They are proud to be part of the learning community.”
- “Pupils know that they are looked after by kind adults who know them well.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, curriculum thinking lacks precision.”
- “In these subjects, the school is still determining the specific content that pupils should learn.”
- “This means that, sometimes, teachers move on to new learning before pupils have fully grasped a deep understanding of new concepts and ideas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 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) | 79% | 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: 32 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Highfield Primary School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Ferns Primary Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St James CofE Primary School, Farnworth 0.5 mi Not judged
- Cherry Tree Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Queensbridge Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Michael's CofE Primary School, Great Lever 1.0 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Ss Simon & Jude CofE Primary School, Bolton 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- All Saints CofE Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published