Woodfield Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.643 miles
Published by Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Woodfield Primary School is a primary school in Wigan for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 3 December 2024. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Woodfield 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 | 0.643 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 8 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026: last child offered a place lived 0.643 miles away, the 20th longest of 45 Wigan primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That Reception 2026 distance was further out than in 2025 and about the same as in 2011, with sharp swings between some years.
- Reception 2026: 42 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families and 12 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 93% met the expected standard (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Wigan.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wigan schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Wigan Lane, Wigan, WN1 2NT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 3 December 2024
Strengths
- “Woodfield Primary School provides all pupils with an excellent standard of education.”
- “The school wants all pupils to be the very best they can be.”
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, rise to these high expectations at every opportunity.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 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) | 93% | 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: 42 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 Wigan.
- Beech Hill Community Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Canon Sharples Church of England Primary School and Nursery 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mab's Cross Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary and St John Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wigan St Andrew's CofE Junior and Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holy Family RC Primary School, New Springs, Wigan 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Catharine's CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published