St George's CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Bolton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Bolton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St George's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
St George's CofE 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 | Not published |
| 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in 1 of the 3 earlier years.
- Reception 2026 had 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 28 offers went to first-choice families and 5 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
- 16 of the 80 applications (20%) for Reception 2026 came from families living outside Bolton, and 5 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bolton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- The Hoskers, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 2FB
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 247 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 31 March 2026
Strengths
- “The school is calm and orderly.”
- “Pupils settle quickly into their activities and are keen to learn.”
- “Pupils attend school regularly.”
To improve
- “That said, at times this could be done with greater consistency.”
- “There remains further work to do in realising this.”
- “That said, some approaches to curriculum teaching for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND are not consistently implemented as well as they could be.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 May 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) | 60% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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 Bolton.
- Eatock Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- St Bartholomew's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Woodland Primary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St James CofE Primary School, Daisy Hill 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- The Gates Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas CofE Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Andrew's CofE Primary School, Over Hulton 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published