St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex·TN40 1QE
Composite score
57.8
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#4,601
National rank
#670
In South East
#26
In East Sussex
Top 31%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
80%
% achieving higher RWM
5%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
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
69%
84 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.40
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
167
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.30
00.511.52
1 per place
1.0320220.9820231.0520241.1020251.402026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School yet. East Sussex 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
5–11
Pupils on roll
419
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
15.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
6.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,644
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School at a glance

Located in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 419 pupils aged 5 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 80% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the national average of 61%. That is down 12.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 31% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 5% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 69% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (84 first choices for 60 places). Overall pupil absence was 4.9%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. St Peter and St Paul CofE 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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