St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Farnborough, Hampshire·GU14 8LS
Composite score
36.0
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#12,157
National rank
#1819
In South East
#256
In Hampshire
Top 82%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
97%
30 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
58
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.17
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1 per place
0.8520220.8120230.9720240.8320251.002026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School yet. Hampshire 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
210
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
42.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
6.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,829
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School at a glance

Located in Farnborough, Hampshire, St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 210 pupils aged 4 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 12.0 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 105 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 97% of the families who made St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 4.1%. There are about 22.0 pupils per teacher. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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