St Wulstan's Catholic Primary School

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Newcastle, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2025

Every applicant was offered a place

From Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025

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St Wulstan's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Newcastle, Staffordshire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 February 2025. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.

St Wulstan's 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

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

In 2024/25, 72% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: 2nd highest of this school and the 7 of the 8 nearest Staffordshire primary schools that have results.
Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2025, something 0 of the 40 other Staffordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome also did.
Reception 2026 had 49 first-choice applications for 49 offers (1.0 per offer, 53rd highest of 296 Staffordshire primary schools), and every first-choice family was offered a place.
7.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 19.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Church Lane, Wolstanton, Newcastle, ST5 0EF
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Religious character: Roman Catholic
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 457 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 7.7% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 24.7

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Standards maintained Inspected 5 February 2025

Strengths

“At St Wulstan’s, pupils and staff ‘love, learn and share’ together.”
“This motto is embodied throughout all aspects of school life.”
“The school has high aspirations for pupils, who love to learn.”

To improve

“However, in a small number of subjects, for some pupils with SEND adaptations are not as precise or consistent as they could be.”
“These pupils do not learn as well as they could.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 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)	72%	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: 49 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 49 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 Staffordshire.

St Margaret's CofE (VC) Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Ellison Primary Academy 0.3 mi Good
May Bank Infants' School 0.4 mi Good
Hempstalls Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
Sun Academy Bradwell 1.2 mi School remains Good
Bursley Academy 1.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
Hassell Primary School 1.3 mi Good
St Mary's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good