Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 18 December 2024. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Holy Spirit 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 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
- Reception 2026 had 31 first-choice applications for 29 offers: 27 offers went to first-choice families, so 4 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place.
- That is 1.1 first choices per offer in Reception 2026, the 12th highest of 53 St. Helens primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%); 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 result was the 2nd 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
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 213 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 18 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils feel loved at this welcoming school.”
- “The school’s motto, ‘Together we will soar to new heights’, underpins the high ambition that staff have for pupils and that pupils assume for themselves.”
- “Pupils are happy because they feel valued and cared for here.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils do not recall their learning from the term or year before.”
- “This hinders how well they build new learning on to current knowledge.”
- “However, the school is still refining its approaches to assessment in some subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 January 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) | 62% | 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, 29 offers in total, 27 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.
- Broad Oak Community Primary School 0.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sutton Oak CofE Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Allanson Street Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Legh Vale Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Grange Valley Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Merton Bank Primary School 1.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Ashurst Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published