Castle View Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Runcorn, Halton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Halton Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Castle View Primary School is a primary school in Runcorn, Halton for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 15 November 2022. Halton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Castle View 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, but places ran out in all 4 earlier years, and the last distance offered swung sharply, most from 2024 to 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 16 first-choice applications for 17 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 83% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Halton.
- In 2024/25, 30% of pupils reached the higher standard at the end of primary school (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Halton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Mead Way, Halton Brook, Runcorn, WA7 2DZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Halton
- Pupils on roll
- 176 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 48.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 15 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to Castle View Primary School.”
- “This is because of the positive relationships they form with their friends and with the caring staff who know pupils well.”
- “Parents and carers value the support and care provided to their children by staff.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, including in the early years, leaders have not identified clearly enough the most important knowledge that staff will teach.”
- “As a result, in these subjects, teachers are hindered in designing learning that builds logically on what pupils know already.”
- “This means that pupils do not remember their learning as securely as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 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) | 83% | 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: 16 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 16 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 Halton.
- The Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Halton Lodge Nursery & Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Brow Community Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodside Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Astmoor Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hallwood Park Primary School and Nursery 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pewithall School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published