St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.365 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Warrington for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 11 June 2025. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
St Joseph'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 | 1.365 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.365 miles away, the 28th longest of 65 Warrington primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.13 miles).
- That 2026 Reception distance was further than in 2025 and 2023; distances have swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2023 to 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 24 first-choice applications for 24 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer (18th highest of 61 Warrington primary schools); every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% 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
- Walton Avenue, Penketh, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Warrington, WA5 2AU
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 214 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 11 June 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this friendly and welcoming school.”
- “Positive relationships between staff and pupils create a safe space.”
- “In this environment, pupils feel secure and comfortable sharing their worries or concerns.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, where the curriculum is relatively new, the school is in the process of developing its approach to checking what pupils know and remember.”
- “In these subjects, on occasion, this hinders teaching in identifying and addressing gaps in pupils’ knowledge.”
- “However, staff sometimes do not spot and correct errors in pupils’ writing.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 July 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) | 77% | 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, 24 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.
- Park Road Community Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Penketh Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Great Sankey Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Vincent's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Penketh South Community Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chapelford Village Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Barrow Hall Community Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Sankey Valley St James Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published