Broad Oak Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school St Helens, St. Helens·WA9 2JE
Composite score
39.4
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National rank
#1654
In North West
#43
In St. Helens
Top 75%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
52 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
0.87
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
85
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.08
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720220.9820230.8820240.9520250.872026

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

Every child who put Broad Oak Community 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
644
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
67.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
13.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
21.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,886
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Broad Oak Community Primary School

Broad Oak Community Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 644 pupils aged 2 to 11 attend the school. 57% 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 risen by 11.0 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 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Broad Oak Community Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 60 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 18.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 67% 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. Broad Oak Community 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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