St Patrick's Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Wigan·WN1 3RZ
Composite score
53.3
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#6,094
National rank
#818
In North West
#43
In Wigan
Top 41%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
73%
% achieving higher RWM
5%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
40 first choices, 43 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
62
any preference, for 43 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.11
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9520220.8120231.0020241.0420250.932026

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

Every child who put St Patrick's Catholic Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
363
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
37.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
25.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,051
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St Patrick's Catholic Primary School

St Patrick's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Wigan, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 363 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 73% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That is down 2.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 41% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 5% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Patrick's Catholic Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 40 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.6%. There are about 20.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. St Patrick's Catholic 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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