St John's Roman Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school London, Southwark·SE16 6SD
Composite score
86.6
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#373
National rank
#133
In London
#6
In Southwark
Top 2%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
92%
% achieving higher RWM
23%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
65%
40 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.33
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
133
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
20%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.57
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.9020230.9720240.7620251.332026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St John's Roman Catholic Primary School yet. Southwark does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
228
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
30.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
11.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,256
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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About St John's Roman Catholic Primary School

St John's Roman Catholic Primary School is a primary school in London, Southwark, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 228 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 92% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 12.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 2% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 23% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St John's Roman Catholic Primary School is oversubscribed: about 6 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 40 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.3%. There are about 20.3 pupils per teacher. St John's Roman Catholic Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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