Lostock Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Bolton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.171 miles
Published by Bolton Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lostock Primary School is a primary school in Bolton for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Bolton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Lostock 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 2026 | 1.171 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| 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
- For Reception 2026 there were 41 first-choice applications for 30 offers, 1.4 first choices per offer, the 5th highest of 90 Bolton primary schools.
- Of the 2026 Reception offers, 29 went to first-choice families, and 12 first-choice families (29%) were not offered a place.
- In 2026 the last Reception place offered went to a child 1.171 miles away, the 13th longest of 36 Bolton primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception last distances have swung sharply between years; the biggest move came from 2025 to 2026, when the 2026 distance was further from the school.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bolton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Glengarth Drive, Lostock, Bolton, BL6 4PS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Bolton
- Pupils on roll
- 213 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 41 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 Bolton.
- Beaumont Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Bernard's RC Primary School, Bolton 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ladybridge Community Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Markland Hill Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE Primary School, Deane 1.2 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- St Thomas of Canterbury RC School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Claypool Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Devonshire Road Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published