St John's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale

About St John's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale

St John's Catholic Primary School in Skelmersdale serves a community with a notably high level of disadvantage, with 46.3% of its 190 pupils eligible for free school meals, more than double the national average. Its headline Key Stage 2 metric — the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths — stands at 48%, which is 12 percentage points below the Lancashire local authority average of 60%. This places the school in the bottom half of primary schools in West Lancashire, ranked 41st out of 48. However, the picture is more nuanced than a single headline figure suggests. In writing, 80% of pupils met the expected standard, comfortably above the national benchmark, and in maths the figure was 68%. The school's average scaled scores of 103 in maths and 102 in reading are both in line with national averages, indicating solid core teaching. The gap between the combined measure and individual subjects suggests that some pupils may struggle to sustain progress across all three disciplines simultaneously.

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