St Oswald's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.047 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Oswald's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Warrington for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 September 2023. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
St Oswald'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 | 1.047 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
- In 2024/25, 72% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 16% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026 the last distance offered was 1.047 miles, further than in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- In 2026 there were 24 first-choice applications for 25 Reception offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Padgate Lane, Padgate, Warrington, WA1 3LB
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 185 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are nurtured at St Oswald’s Catholic Primary School.”
- “They benefit from the support of the caring staff who know them well.”
- “If they feel anxious or worried, they trust adults in the school to help them.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, the school does not make the most important knowledge and skills pupils should acquire and remember clear enough.”
- “This means that teachers do not revisit or consolidate some key concepts before they introduce new learning.”
- “As a result, staff cannot check sufficiently well whether pupils have remembered earlier learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 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) | 72% | 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, 25 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 Warrington.
- Oakwood Avenue Community Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Brook Acre Community Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Benedict's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bruche Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School Padgate 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Beamont Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Elphin's Church of England Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Margaret's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published