Millbrook Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.203 miles
Published by Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Millbrook 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 14 July 2022. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Millbrook 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 | 0.203 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
- For Reception entry in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.203 miles away, the 6th shortest of 45 Wigan primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2012, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 8 years with a published distance.
- Reception in 2026 had 43 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families and 13 first-choice families (30%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 55% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 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
- Elmfield, Shevington, Wigan, WN6 8DL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 214 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 30.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 July 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this happy and welcoming school.”
- “This helps pupils to enjoy a calm and orderly start to the school day.”
- “They say that they feel safe in school.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils have not achieved as well as they could in mathematics.”
- “However, they do not analyse this information as carefully as they could for some other groups of pupils.”
- “This means that leaders do not have a precise understanding of which pupils might be missing out on the benefits of the school's programme.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 2026 (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) | 55% | 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: 43 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.
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Wood Fold Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shevington Vale Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Standish Lower Ground St Anne's CofE Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Marie's Catholic Primary School Standish 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Standish St Wilfrid's Church of England Primary Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Beech Hill Community Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published