St Mary's Church of England Primary School

Voluntary controlled school·Primary school Slough·SL1 2AR
Composite score
49.6
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#7,383
National rank
#1102
In South East
#22
In Slough
Top 50%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
71%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
85%
100 first choices, 90 places
First choices per place
1.11
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
153
any preference, for 90 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.21
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0320221.3220231.0820241.3220251.112026

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

Slough does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for St Mary's Church of England Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
680
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
30.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
65.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.4
Typical primary: 20.7

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

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Location

St Mary's Church of England Primary School at a glance

Located in Slough, St Mary's Church of England Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary controlled school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 680 pupils aged 3 to 11. 71% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Mary's Church of England Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 100 first choices for 90 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.6%. There are about 19.4 pupils per teacher. St Mary's Church of England 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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