St Bede's Catholic Infant School
Primary · Widnes · WA8 6EL
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 24 October 2023
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223 pupils · 99% of 225 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 5–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 20.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.9% of pupils
- Website
- www.stbedesinfants.co.uk
- URN
- 111372
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.98 first-choice applications per place59 places offered · 58 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1669.6 m (≈1.04 mi)
measured in a straight line.
Cutoff distance by entry year
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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
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Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 24 October 2023: Outstanding
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 1/10among the most deprived tenth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 1/10among the most deprived tenth of England
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 18.2% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 25.6% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 17.2% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 31.1% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 39.9% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 32.2% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 39.1% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 28.5% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 3.1% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 28.1% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 3% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 40% | 23.5% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01012367 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,479 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £150,000342 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
- Typical range
- £115,000–£205,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are among the cheapest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.67 km, 2025 entry): 764 sales, median £180,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 4an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 8an urban school averages 5.8
- All reported collisions
- 28an urban school averages 30.6
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 8an urban school averages 6.1
Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby schools
- St Bede's Catholic Junior School
- Kingsway Primary Academy School
- Wade Deacon High School
- Fairfield Primary School
- Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School
- Birchfield Nursery School
- St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School
- Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Warrington Road Nursery School