St Paul's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Stockport, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.397 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Paul's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is a primary school in Stockport, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 April 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Paul's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 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 | 4.397 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- 16.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 5.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East.
- Under one of its admission criteria, the last Reception place in 2026 went to a child 4.397 miles away, about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2024.
- There were 11 first-choice applications for 13 Reception offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 71% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Cheshire East schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Marley Road, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1LY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 110 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud of their school mission statement.”
- “They aspire ‘not to have more but to be more’ in all that they do.”
- “They enjoy learning and they work hard.”
To improve
- “The high expectations that the school has for children’s early writing development are not mirrored consistently as pupils move into key stage 1 and beyond.”
- “For example, teachers do not support pupils well to develop a secure pencil grip and to form letters correctly.”
- “This hinders the quality of pupil’s written communication across school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 June 2024 (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) | 71% | 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: 11 first-preference applications, 13 offers in total, 11 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 Cheshire East.
- Vernon Primary School 0.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Worth Primary School 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Lower Park School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lostock Hall Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Adlington Primary School 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pott Shrigley CofE Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Dean Valley Community Primary School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bollington St John's CofE Primary School 3.5 mi Good Last distance published