St Monica's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.210 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Monica's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Warrington for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 18 March 2025. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
St Monica's Catholic 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 | 0.210 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 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.210 miles away, the shortest of 65 Warrington primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 15 first-choice applications for 20 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils 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 Warrington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- St Monica's Close, Appleton, Warrington, WA4 3AG
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 152 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 18 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are eager to come to school each morning where they are warmly welcomed.”
- “Staff know pupils and their families well in this caring school.”
- “As a result, pupils feel happy and safe.”
To improve
- “However, some of these pupils do not get the same opportunity to apply their knowledge of phonics to their writing.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not develop their writing to the standard that they could.”
- “However, some of these subject curriculums lack sufficient detail for staff.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2025 (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) | 61% | 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: 15 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 15 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 Warrington.
- The Cobbs Infant and Nursery School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Broomfields Junior School 0.2 mi Good
- St Thomas' CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stockton Heath Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grappenhall Heys Community Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grappenhall St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Alderman Bolton Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published