Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · St Helens, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.572 miles
Published by St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rainford Brook Lodge Community Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–11 (academy converter). St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Rainford Brook Lodge 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 2025 | 0.572 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 0.572 miles away, the 5th shortest of 16 St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 25 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 24 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (4%) was not offered a place.
- Of the 67 applications for Reception 2026, 8 (12%) came from families living outside St. Helens, and 4 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 74% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th 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
- Rufford Road, Rainford, St Helens, WA11 8JX
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 217 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 74% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 24 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 CofE Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bleak Hill Primary School 3.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Carr Mill Primary School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Billinge Chapel End Primary School 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Aidan's CofE Primary School Billinge 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published