Golborne Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Warrington, Wigan
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Wigan Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Golborne Community Primary School is a primary school in Warrington, Wigan for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 February 2023. Wigan has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Golborne 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- 89% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Wigan.
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, though places ran out, with a last distance published, in 4 of the 14 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 45 first-choice applications for 59 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 14 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 16.5 pupils per teacher and 29.8% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figures across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wigan are 24.8 and 18.8%.
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
- Talbot Street, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3NN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Wigan
- Pupils on roll
- 373 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this school.”
- “The positive, nurturing relationships between everyone make Golborne Community Primary School a happy place to learn.”
- “One parent, typifying the views of many, told inspectors that their child ‘has thrived’ since going to school and often returns with a big smile on their face.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, other than English and mathematics, some pupils have not remembered aspects of their earlier learning.”
- “This is because they have not had enough opportunities to revisit their prior learning in order to make sure that it is secure.”
- “This can hamper them when they start to learn something new.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 March 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) | 89% | 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: 45 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 45 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.
- All Saints Catholic Primary School, Golborne, Wigan 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Thomas CofE Junior and Infant School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Lowton West Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Luke's CofE Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Lowton 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Thomas CofE Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lowton Junior and Infant School 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published