The Olive Tree Primary School Bolton
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · Bolton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.549 miles
Published by Bolton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Olive Tree Primary School Bolton is a primary school in Bolton for ages 4–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 22 January 2025. Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
The Olive Tree Primary School Bolton 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 | 0.549 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
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 0.549 miles away, the 12th shortest of 36 Bolton primary schools with a published last distance.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years; in 2026 it was further from the school than in 2025 and nearer than in 2023.
- Reception 2026: 69 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families and 11 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%); 12% 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
- Adelaide Street, Daubhill, Adelaide House, Bolton, BL3 3NY
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Muslim
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 418 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 22 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils have an excellent understanding of what these mean and apply them in many different ways.”
- “For example, pupils have a depth of knowledge about the different faiths and cultures that make up modern day Britain.”
- “Pupils have a strong conviction that everyone should be treated with respect.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, some of the activities that teachers select for pupils do not focus sufficiently well on the most important knowledge in the curriculum.”
- “Some of these inconsistencies have not been picked up by the school.”
- “This hinders the school from having a robust oversight of how well pupils learn in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 March 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) | 75% | 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: 69 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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.
- Sunning Hill Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Brandwood Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Ethelbert's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Bede Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Clarendon Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Haslam Park Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Essa Primary Academy 0.5 mi Not judged
- Lever Edge Primary Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published