Nutgrove Methodist Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school St Helens, St. Helens·WA9 5NH
Composite score
46.3
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#8,695
National rank
#1241
In North West
#30
In St. Helens
Top 59%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
64%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
25 first choices, 27 places
First choices per place
0.93
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
62
any preference, for 27 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.17
00.511.52
1 per place
0.8920221.4020231.1020241.1020250.932026

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

Every child who put Nutgrove Methodist 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
201
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Methodist

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
23.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,408
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Nutgrove Methodist Primary School

Nutgrove Methodist Primary School is a primary school in St Helens, St. Helens, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Methodist religious character. Around 201 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 64% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. That is down 6.0 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 lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Nutgrove Methodist Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 25 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.4%. There are about 24.8 pupils per teacher. Nutgrove Methodist 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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