St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Leigh, Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.266 miles
Published by Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh is a primary school in Leigh, Wigan for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh 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 | 0.266 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.266 miles away, the 11th shortest of 45 Wigan primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.60 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and nearer than in 2011, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception in 2026 had 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 28 offers went to first-choice families and 3 first-choice families (10%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 45% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Mather Lane, Leigh, WN7 2PW
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 24 March 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School learn in a happy and safe environment.”
- “Pupils attend regularly and they value learning.”
- “They appreciate the warm and nurturing relationships that exist across the school.”
To improve
- “The exception for this in the 2025 data is writing.”
- “Occasionally, their checks do not give them precise enough information to help them make timely improvements.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 May 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) | 45% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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 Thomas' CofE Primary School, Leigh 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School, Pennington 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Leigh CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Leigh St Mary's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leigh Central Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Leigh 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bedford Hall Methodist Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Leigh St John's CofE Primary 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published