Oakdene Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Prescot, St. Helens
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.158 miles
Published by St Helens Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Oakdene Primary Academy is a primary school in Prescot, St. Helens for ages 4–11 (academy converter). St. Helens has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2025 entry.
Oakdene Primary 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 | 1.158 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
- Reception 2025's last distance offered, 1.158 miles, was the 4th longest of 16 St. Helens primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance; the middle figure was 0.81 miles.
- The Reception last distance has swung sharply between years, and the 2025 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 27 first-choice applications for 29 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 17 of the 83 applications (20%) came from outside St. Helens.
- Free school meal eligibility is 8.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 23.1% across 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
- Ashton Avenue, Rainhill, Prescot, L35 0QQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- St. Helens
- Pupils on roll
- 206 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 28.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 27 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 27 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 Ann's Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Longton Lane Community Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sutton Manor Community Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Vianney Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Theresa's Catholic Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Nutgrove Methodist Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Austin's Catholic Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published