Carr Mill Primary School
Primary · Community 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 🔒
Carr Mill Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 2 March 2023. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Carr Mill 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
- For 2025 Reception, every applicant was offered a place, and 36 of the 52 other St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome did the same.
- For 2026 Reception, there were 42 first-choice applications for 41 offers; 40 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 52% reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Kentmere Avenue, Carr Mill, St Helens, WA11 7PQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 302 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 2 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, and children in the early years, enjoy coming to school.”
- “They are proud to be members of #teamcarrmill.”
- “Pupils are positive about learning and respectful to each other and adults.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, leaders are refining what they want pupils to know and understand.”
- “Pupils do not deepen their understanding as well as they should in these curriculum areas.”
- “However, the published data for those pupils who left Year 6 in 2022, showed that these pupils did not achieve as well in reading as they did in other subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 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) | 52% | 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: 42 first-preference applications, 41 offers in total, 40 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.
- St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Billinge Chapel End Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ashurst Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St. Mary's Blackbrook Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Merton Bank Primary School 1.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Aidan's CofE Primary School Billinge 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Parish Church of England Primary School, St Helens 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published