Rainford CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · St Helens, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.564 miles
Published by St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Rainford CofE Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 28 September 2023. St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Rainford 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 2025 | 2.564 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2025 the last child offered a place lived 2.564 miles away, the 2nd longest of 16 St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 40 first-choice applications for 30 offers, 1.3 first choices per offer, the 7th highest of 53 St. Helens primary schools.
- For Reception 2026, 29 offers went to first-choice families, while 11 first-choice families (28%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other St. Helens schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Cross Pit Lane, Rainford, St Helens, WA11 8AJ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 230 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 28 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils feel safe and happy at Rainford CofE Primary School.”
- “The school has high expectations for pupils’ learning.”
- “Pupils work hard in their lessons and they achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, the information that the school provides for teachers about some pupils with more complex SEND is not as precise as it could be.”
- “As a result, some teachers are not sufficiently equipped to adapt their delivery of the curriculum for these pupils.”
- “However, on occasion, a few pupils fall short of the high expectations that staff have of their behaviour.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 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) | 70% | 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: 40 first-preference applications, 30 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 St. Helens.
- Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bleak Hill Primary School 2.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Rivington Primary School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Carr Mill Primary School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Julie's Catholic Primary School 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published