St Matthew's CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Oldham
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
Every applicant was offered a place
From Oldham Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2022–2023 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Matthew's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Oldham for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Oldham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2024 entry.
St Matthew's 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 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 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
- In Reception 2024, every applicant was offered a place, as at all 11 other Oldham primary schools with a published Reception 2024 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 62 first-choice applications for 59 offers, with 59 offers going to first-choice families; 3 first-choice families (5%) were not offered a place.
- The 2026 Reception figure of 1.1 first choices per offer was the 18th highest of 79 Oldham primary schools.
- 16.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 29% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Oldham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Oldham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Chadderton Hall Road, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 0BN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Oldham
- Pupils on roll
- 400 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 62 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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 Oldham.
- Mills Hill Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bare Trees Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Herbert's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Burnley Brow Community School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St. Paul's CofE Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Luke's CofE Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Thorp Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Anne's CofE (Aided) Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published