The Gates Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Bolton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.457 miles
last distance offered: “0.457 miles” · Published by Bolton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Gates Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 September 2023. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
The Gates 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 | 0.457 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.457 miles away, the 8th shortest of 36 Bolton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2023, with sharp swings between some years.
- Reception 2026: 32 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 27 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 84% 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 Bolton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Bristle Hall Way, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3QA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 290 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 September 2023
Strengths
- “Everyone at The Gates Primary School is proud to belong to this caring community.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “They build positive and trusting relationships with staff.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, these assessment strategies are not used as effectively as they could be to identify and resolve gaps in learning and revisit key ideas.”
- “This hinders some pupils from building their knowledge securely over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 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) | 84% | 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: 32 first-preference applications, 30 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 Bolton.
- Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Bartholomew's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Thomas CofE Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Woodland Primary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eatock Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- St George's CofE Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St James CofE Primary School, Daisy Hill 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lostock Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published