Voluntary aided school · Primary
Wigan · WN4 8PQ · Wigan
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.5 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 106509
St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school · Wigan · WN4 8SJ
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
187
Local authority
Wigan
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed voluntary aided school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Wigan, Wigan, 187 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 18.5%. Religious character: Roman Catholic. Diocese: Archdiocese of Liverpool.
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Overview
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 106509
Location
- Address
- Golborne Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield
- Postcode
- WN4 8SJ
- Town
- Wigan
- County
- Lancashire
- Local authority
- Wigan
- District
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Makerfield
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 187
- Boys / girls
- 100 / 87
- School capacity
- 199
- Capacity fill
- 187 / 199 (94%)
- Free school meals
- 18.5%
- FSM pupils
- 33
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Liverpool
- Governance
- Voluntary aided school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Geraldine O'Brien
- Telephone
- 01942707101
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-02-24
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 61%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 17%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 106.0