Gilded Hollins Community School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Leigh, Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.776 miles
Published by Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Gilded Hollins Community School is a primary school in Leigh, Wigan for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 July 2023. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Gilded Hollins Community 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 | 0.776 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 Reception entry in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.776 miles away, the 15th longest of 45 Wigan primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 38 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families and 8 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 97% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%).
- That was the highest of 9 schools in 2024/25: 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
- St Helen's Road, Leigh, WN7 3PQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 July 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Gilded Hollins Community School are confident and happy.”
- “They enjoy attending school each day.”
- “The overarching school value of respect emanates from staff and pupils alike.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders do not check on whether the curriculum is being delivered by staff as intended.”
- “From time to time, this hinders leaders in providing appropriate support for some staff to design aspects of learning for pupils.”
- “However, in a small number of subjects, teachers do not break down learning sufficiently well to help some pupils with SEND know and remember more.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 September 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) | 97% | 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: 38 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.
- Lowton St Mary's CofE (Voluntary Aided) Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lowton Junior and Infant School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School, Pennington 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Lowton 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leigh St Peter's CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Luke's CofE Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leigh St Mary's CofE Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leigh Central Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published