Sherdley Primary School

Community school·Primary school St Helens, St. Helens·WA9 4HA
Composite score
39.8
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#10,961
National rank
#1622
In North West
#41
In St. Helens
Top 74%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
54%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
92%
53 first choices, 57 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
138
any preference, for 57 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8020220.9020230.9320240.8920250.932026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Sherdley Primary School yet. St. Helens does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
421
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
27.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,606
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Sherdley Primary School at a glance

Located in St Helens, St. Helens, Sherdley Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 421 pupils aged 3 to 11. 54% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 10.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 92% of the families who made Sherdley Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 5.7%. There are about 24.1 pupils per teacher. Sherdley Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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