St Helen's Catholic Primary School admissions: how far away places were offered

Reception offers at St Helen's Catholic Primary School, year by year

• “No cut-off” means every applicant was offered a place at the school or at a school they ranked higher, so places never ran out on distance.
• The number of Reception places changed from 60 to 30 in 2025, so earlier years are less comparable.

Things to know before you apply for September 2027

• In each of 2023 to 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place here or at a school they ranked higher.

Ofsted inspection

At an ungraded inspection that ended on 3 July 2024, Ofsted found that St Helen's Catholic Primary School remains Good.

Ungraded inspection (previous framework), ended 3 July 2024.

• This inspection was under Ofsted’s previous framework. Since 10 November 2025 Ofsted publishes report cards instead, and says the new grades can’t be compared with the old ones. How Ofsted grades schools
• From Ofsted’s data as at 30 September 2026. An inspection after that date may not be shown yet: the full report on Ofsted’s website is always the latest.

Read the full report on Ofsted’s website Source: Management information - state-funded schools - latest inspections as at 30 Sep 2026 (Ofsted, published 16 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Admission criteria at St Helen's Catholic Primary School

If more children apply than there are places, the 2026 rules offer places in this order.

1. Looked-after Catholic children, looked-after children in the care of Catholic families, and previously looked-after Catholic children.
2. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic families living in the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary, Brixton.
3. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic families living in the parish of St Francis, Stockwell or St Philip and St James, Herne Hill.
4. Baptised Catholic children from practising Catholic families living in other parishes.
5. Other Catholic children and children enrolled in the catechumenate.
6. Other looked-after and previously looked-after children.
7. Children who are members of Eastern Orthodox Churches.
8. Children of families in other Christian denominations in Churches Together in England.
9. Children of other faiths.
10. Any other children, by distance from the front gate of the home to the school's main gate "in a straight line (or safe walking distance)" (the council's figure).

Where a year’s rules are missing from our data, we use the nearest year’s.

Read the official admission rulesStarting primary school in Lambeth 2026/27: primary school admission brochure (September 2026 intake). The school’s own published arrangements always take priority over our summary.