St Peter's CofE Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Bolton·BL4 9JT
Composite score
45.9
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#8,842
National rank
#1263
In North West
#65
In Bolton
Top 60%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
58%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 09/12/2025 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Strong standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Strong standard
Inclusion
Strong standard
Safeguarding standards
Met
Early years
Expected standard

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
93%
57 first choices, 57 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
109
any preference, for 57 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09
00.511.52
1 per place
1.2320221.0320231.6120240.9120251.002026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Peter's CofE Primary School yet. Bolton 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
422
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
33.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
13.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
8.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,827
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

About St Peter's CofE Primary School

St Peter's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Bolton, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. Around 422 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. 58% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 11.0 percentage points compared with the previous 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 103 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 93% of the families who made St Peter's CofE 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 4.6%. There are about 23.0 pupils per teacher. St Peter's CofE 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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