St John's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bath and North East Somerset Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St John's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Bath, Bath and North East Somerset for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Bath and North East Somerset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
St John's Catholic 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 every Reception applicant was offered a place, whereas places ran out in all 4 earlier published years, with the last distance swinging most from 2018 to 2021.
- For Reception 2026 there were 34 first-choice applications for 40 offers: 0.8 first choices per offer, the 3rd lowest of 57 Bath and North East Somerset primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Here 10.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Bath and North East Somerset is 15.3%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bath and North East Somerset schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Oldfield Lane, Bath, BA2 3NR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Pupils on roll
- 325 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 40 offers in total, 34 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 Bath and North East Somerset.
- Oldfield Park Junior School 0.3 mi Standards maintained
- Moorlands Infant School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Moorlands Junior School 0.3 mi Good
- Oldfield Park Infant School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Roundhill Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Philip's CofE Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Widcombe Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Andrew's Church School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published