St Bede's Catholic Infant School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 5–7 · Widnes, 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 🔒
St Bede's Catholic Infant School is a primary school in Widnes, Halton for ages 5–7 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 24 October 2023. Halton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
St Bede's Catholic Infant 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
- Ofsted rated it Outstanding on 24 October 2023; of the 8 nearest primary schools in Halton, 6 are Good and 2 have no current grade.
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 36 of the 47 other Halton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome; places ran out in 2022, 2023 and 2025.
- For Reception 2026 there were 58 first-choice applications for 59 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meals: 20.2% of pupils are eligible, against a middle figure of 32.8% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Halton.
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
- Leigh Avenue, Widnes, WA8 6EL
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Halton
- Pupils on roll
- 223 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 24 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), flourish at St Bede’s Catholic Infant School.”
- “They more than rise to meet the schools’ high expectations for their academic and personal development.”
- “Pupils fully live out the school’s motto of ‘Learn to love; love to learn’.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 58 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 58 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.
- St Bede's Catholic Junior School 0.0 mi Improved significantly
- Kingsway Primary Academy School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Fairfield Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ditton Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Fisher Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Lunts Heath Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published