St Bridget's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · WARRINGTON, Warrington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.608 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Bridget's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in WARRINGTON, Warrington for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 15 February 2023. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
St Bridget'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 | 0.608 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
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 55.6% of pupils, against a middle figure of 33.8% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Warrington.
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered, 0.608 miles, was 16th shortest of 65 Warrington primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance, nearer than 2025, further than 2023.
- Reception 2026 drew 18 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% 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
- Capesthorne Road, Poulton-with-Fearnhead, ST.BRIDGET'S SCHOOL CAPESTHORNE ROAD, WARRINGTON, WA2 0ER
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 198 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 55.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 15 February 2023
Strengths
- “Staff expect pupils to achieve well.”
- “Pupils enjoy learning and they work hard in lessons.”
- “Pupils achieve well in most subjects.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, in a very small number of subjects, the curriculum design is at an earlier stage.”
- “The key knowledge that pupils should learn is less well defined.”
- “Consequently, some pupils do not learn all that they could in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 March 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) | 70% | 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: 18 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 18 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.
- Cinnamon Brow Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brook Acre Community Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Primary School Padgate 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Margaret's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Oswald's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Stephen's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Meadowside Community Primary and Nursery School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published