Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Leigh
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
D53
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Leigh, WN7 1UX
- Distance
- 0.5km away
Leigh St John's CofE Primary
Kirkhall Lane, Leigh, WN7 1RY
Local ranking22nd of 97 primary schools in Wigan
Ofsted: OutstandingUpdated— score data refreshed 7 September 2026
Primary
Phase
210
Capacity
5-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 67.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 7.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 83.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 77.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 87.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 70.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 107.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 106.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 106.0
- Cohort Size
- 30
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 212
- Boys
- 110 (52%)
- Girls
- 102 (48%)
- Capacity
- 210 (101% full)
- SEND
- 16.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 20.3%
- EAL
- 14.2%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.4%
- SEN Support
- 14.2%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 23.6:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.0
- Budget per Pupil
- £6,845/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 4.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 6.5% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Church of England
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 82.5%
- White Other: 5.2%
- Black African: 4.3%
- Mixed White & Black African: 1.4%
- Mixed Other: 1.4%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.4%
- Asian Other: 1.4%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.9%
82.5%
White British
5.2%
White Other
4.3%
Black African
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Kirkhall Lane
Leigh, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 106517
- UKPRN
- 10071384
- Establishment No.
- 3425
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