St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–7 · St Helens, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens for ages 3–7 (academy sponsor led). St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
St Mary's Catholic Infant Academy 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2025, as at 36 of the 52 other St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 44 first-choice applications for 46 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 11.6% of pupils; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in St. Helens is 31.8%.
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
- Victoria Road, Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, WA12 9RX
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 173 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 44 first-preference applications, 46 offers in total, 44 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.
- St Mary's Catholic Junior Academy 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Newton-le-Willows Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The District CofE Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wargrave CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lyme Community Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St James' Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Haydock English Martyrs' Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published