St Mark's CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.795 miles
Published by Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mark's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Wigan for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 September 2023. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
St Mark's CofE 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 | 0.795 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 8 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.795 miles away, the 14th longest of 45 Wigan primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was the longest of the 7 years with a published distance, and further from the school than in 2014.
- Reception 2026 had 30 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (3%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 44% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Wigan.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wigan schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Alexandra Street, Newtown, Wigan, WN5 9DS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 240 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this school.”
- “It is a welcoming place to be.”
- “Pupils and staff have a strong sense of belonging.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, the curriculum does not identify the essential knowledge that pupils need to know.”
- “This means that some pupils do not gain the building blocks of knowledge that are crucial to their later learning.”
- “However, pupils do not have enough opportunity to recap and consolidate their learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 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) | 44% | 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: 30 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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 Wigan.
- St James' Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Jude's Catholic Primary School Wigan 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Wigan 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westfield Community School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wigan Worsley Mesnes Community Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Marsh Green Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Highfield St Matthew's Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Paul's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published