St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Withnell
URN 119680 · Primary · Voluntary aided school · Lancashire
Bury Lane, Chorley, PR6 8SD
How many families applied
Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.
In the 2025 intake, 8 families named St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Withnell as their first preference, and the school made 8 offers.
No per-place figure is published for this year: the school offered 8 places, too few for a ratio to mean anything.
| Intake | 1st preferences | All preferences | Offers made | 1st prefs per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | 38 | 8 | - |
| 2024 | 12 | 38 | 12 | 1.00 |
| 2023 | 12 | 37 | 14 | 0.86 |
| 2022 | 15 | 45 | 15 | 1.00 |
| 2021 | 16 | 43 | 15 | 1.07 |
| 2020 | 11 | 45 | 13 | 0.85 |
| 2019 | 15 | 48 | 15 | 1.00 |
| 2018 | 14 | 40 | 15 | 0.93 |
| 2017 | 17 | 33 | 15 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | 9 | 27 | 11 | 0.82 |
| 2015 | 6 | 24 | 6 | - |
| 2014 | 7 | 17 | 7 | - |
“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.
Ofsted
Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.
Ofsted ungraded inspection, 17 December 2024
Standards maintained
Ofsted's report for this school
Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 8 October 2019
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding
Quality of education: Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding
Personal development: Outstanding
Leadership and management: Outstanding
Early years: Outstanding
Sixth form / post-16: 9
Ofsted's report for this school
Exam results
Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.
| Year | Expected standard in reading, writing & maths | Higher standard | Average reading score | Average maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 71.0% | 14.0% | 107.0 | 107.0 |
| 2023/24 | 79.0% | 29.0% | 111.0 | 108.0 |
| 2022/23 | 83.0% | 25.0% | 111.0 | 107.0 |
Teachers staying and leaving
These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.
| Census year | Teachers (FTE) | Still there a year later | Moved to another state school | Left state schools | Left in total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2023/24 | 6.7 | 3.3 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 50.7% |
| 2022/23 | 6.2 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 33.9% |
| 2021/22 | 6.3 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 25.4% |
| 2020/21 | 5.6 | 4.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 17.9% |
| 2019/20 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.
Catchment area
Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.
Where it is
The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Withnell.
- Abbey Village Primary School: 1.0 km (0.6 miles) east, Chorley
- Brinscall St John's CofE and Methodist Primary School: 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west, Chorley
- Withnell Fold Primary School: 2.2 km (1.4 miles) west, Chorley
- St Stephen's Tockholes CofE Primary School: 3.1 km (1.9 miles) east, Darwen
- Feniscowles Primary School: 3.7 km (2.3 miles) north, Blackburn
- Brindle St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School: 3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-west, Chorley
Nearby and related
- Other schools near St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Withnell
- All schools in Lancashire
- Schools in the PR6 postcode district
- What data we hold
- This page as JSON: the same figures, for software that would rather not read a web page
Where these figures come from
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase and address
Retrieved 2 September 2026 - Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2014 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: key stage 2 attainment. Reading, writing and maths outcomes, by school
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census
Retrieved 4 September 2026
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