St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–11 · Widnes, Halton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.90 miles
Published by Halton Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in Widnes, Halton for ages 2–11 (voluntary aided school). Halton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery 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 | 1.90 mi |
| 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.90 miles from the school, which was further than in 2022.
- That 1.90 miles was the 2nd longest of 10 Halton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (this one included), where the middle figure was 1.06 miles.
- 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%); 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 77% figure for 2024/25 was the highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Halton that have results.
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
- Lugsdale Road, Widnes, WA8 6DD
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Catholic
- Council
- Halton
- Pupils on roll
- 236 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 27 January 2026
Strengths
- “St Gerard’s is a loving and welcoming school.”
- “Pupils experience a strong sense of belonging here.”
- “They enjoy positive relationships and are greeted each morning by staff who genuinely care and know them well.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, leaders know that pupils’ achievement can improve further still in some areas, such as the Year 4 multiplication times table check.”
- “Children build their confidence in reading but do not consistently form their letters with the same level of accuracy and fluency.”
- “At times, this prevents a small number of children from being fully prepared for writing in Year 1.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 March 2026 (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: 31 first-preference applications, 31 offers in total, 31 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.
- Kingsway Primary Academy School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Bede's Catholic Infant School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Bede's Catholic Junior School 0.6 mi Improved significantly
- Fairfield Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John Fisher Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Widnes Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ditton Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Runcorn All Saints CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published