St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh

School overview

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh is a primary school serving Leigh, Wigan, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 213 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 45% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 29.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 109 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 31 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 24.9 pupils per teacher. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh 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.