Penketh South Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.479 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Penketh South Community Primary School is a primary school in Warrington for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 29 September 2022. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Penketh South Community 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 | 1.479 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 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last Reception child offered a place in 2026 lived 1.479 miles away, the 26th longest of 65 Warrington primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and than in 2023, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 20 first-choice applications for 21 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 52% 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 Warrington.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warrington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Finlay Avenue, Penketh, Warrington, WA5 2PN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 230 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), achieve well.”
- “This is because leaders and staff are ambitious for pupils and they help them to do their best.”
- “Leaders provide pupils, including children in early years, with a worthwhile curriculum.”
To improve
- “Even so, in a few subjects in the wider curriculum, leaders have not identified all the important knowledge that staff need to teach.”
- “This hinders how well a few pupils learn.”
- “While lots of pupils in key stage 1 learn to read well, a small number of pupils struggle to practise their reading.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 2022 (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: 20 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 20 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 Warrington.
- St Vincent's Catholic Primary School 0.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Penketh Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Great Sankey Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Park Road Community Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sankey Valley St James Church of England Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chapelford Village Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Evelyn Street Primary Academy and Nursery 1.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published