Broad Oak Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · St Helens, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Broad Oak Community Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 1 October 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Broad Oak Community 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 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 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
- In Reception 2026 had 52 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In Reception 2025 every applicant was offered a place, as was the case at 36 of the 52 other St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other St. Helens schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Brunswick Street, Parr, St Helens, WA9 2JE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 630 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 53.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 1 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this warm and welcoming school.”
- “The ‘Broad Oak Family’ values, such as friendship and having an ‘I can do it’ attitude, underpin the way that pupils approach learning.”
- “Pupils value the strong relationships that they have with adults at the school.”
To improve
- “However, in recent years, the school’s outcomes for pupils’ writing have been too low.”
- “In addition, some pupils cannot form letters accurately or write legibly by the time they leave Year 2.”
- “This then hampers their ability to write fluently and neatly in later years.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 November 2024 (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) | 57% | 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: 52 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 52 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 St. Helens.
- Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Allanson Street Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sutton Oak CofE Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Legh Vale Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Merton Bank Primary School 1.2 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Grange Valley Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Ashurst Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published