St Mary's CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Wigan for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 April 2024. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
St Mary's CofE 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 | 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 |
| 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
- In Reception 2026 every applicant was offered a place, with 24 first-choice applications for 24 offers.
- In 2024/25, 55% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 16.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.6 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wigan.
- 51.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wigan is 41.7%.
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
- Wright Street, Platt Bridge, Wigan, WN2 3NX
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 242 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 51.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this school.”
- “They develop strong and caring bonds with each other and with staff.”
- “Pupils enjoy socialising with their peers during breakfast club and at lunchtimes and breaktimes.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, where the curriculum has recently been refined, the curriculum is not delivered as consistently.”
- “In these subjects, some pupils have not acquired the secure knowledge and skills that they need to enable them to move on to new and more challenging areas of learning.”
- “However, occasionally, some of the strategies that teachers use to establish how well pupils are learning lack precision.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 May 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) | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 24 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.
- Platt Bridge Community School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School, Abram 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Primary School, Hindley 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Hindley 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Hindley Junior and Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St William's Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ince CofE Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published