St John the Evangelist RC Primary School, Bromley Cross, Bolton
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 5–11 · 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 John the Evangelist RC Primary School, Bromley Cross, Bolton is a primary school in Bolton for ages 5–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 January 2024. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
St John the Evangelist RC Primary School, Bromley Cross, Bolton 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: 8 first-choice applications for 11 offers, with 3 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 58% 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 lowest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Bolton that have results.
- The school has 20.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.4 across 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
- Darwen Road, Bromley Cross, Bolton, BL7 9HT
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 162 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are quickly welcomed into a warm and caring school community.”
- “They treat each other with kindness.”
- “For example, at breaktimes, pupils are quick to spot if someone is alone and to ask them to join in.”
To improve
- “In some other subjects, and some areas of learning in the early years, the important knowledge for pupils to remember is less clearly defined.”
- “This means that teachers do not know which information to emphasise when they revisit and check pupils’ learning.”
- “In these subjects, some pupils do not build their knowledge as well as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 March 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) | 58% | 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: 8 first-preference applications, 11 offers in total, 8 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.
- Eagley Infant School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eagley Junior School 0.5 mi Not judged
- The Oaks Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- High Lawn Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Walmsley CofE Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sharples Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Holy Infant and St Anthony RC Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Maxentius CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published