Wigan Worsley Mesnes Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.460 miles
Published by Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wigan Worsley Mesnes Community Primary School is a primary school in Wigan for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2023. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Wigan Worsley Mesnes Community 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 | 0.460 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
- At 0.460 miles, its Reception 2026 last distance was the 19th shortest of 45 Wigan primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 0.60 miles).
- Across the 16 Reception years with a published outcome, every applicant was offered a place in 4; the 2026 last distance was further from the school than in 2011.
- For Reception 2026 there were 36 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families and 7 first-choice families (19%) were not offered a place.
- 52% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 3rd lowest 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
- Clifton Street, Worsley Mesnes, Wigan, WN3 5HN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 231 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy at this nurturing school.”
- “Adopting the Olympic and Paralympic values as the school’s own, leaders expect all pupils to ‘learn like champions’ and ‘achieve more than they ever thought possible’.”
- “Pupils respond positively to these high expectations.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, teaching does not build long-term memory and pupils cannot recall past learning.”
- “As a result, teachers have to spend too much time teaching again what pupils have already learned in previous years.”
- “For some pupils, this limits achievement in some subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 June 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) | 52% | 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: 36 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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.
- St Jude's Catholic Primary School Wigan 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St James' Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Paul's Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Marus Bridge Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Highfield St Matthew's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Wigan 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Wigan 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published