St. George's Primary School & St. George's Nursery School, Great Yarmouth

Community school·Primary school Great Yarmouth, Norfolk·NR30 3BQ
Composite score
23.0
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#14,244
National rank
#1608
In East of England
#241
In Norfolk
Top 96%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
30%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
26 first choices, 26 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
46
any preference, for 26 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.21
00.511.52
1 per place
1.5020221.1420231.1320241.2120251.002026

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

Every child who put St. George's Primary School & St. George's Nursery School, Great Yarmouth first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
207
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
61.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
58.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£9,064
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St. George's Primary School & St. George's Nursery School, Great Yarmouth at a glance

Located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, St. George's Primary School & St. George's Nursery School, Great Yarmouth is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 207 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 30% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 14.0 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 lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 101 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). St. George's Primary School & St. George's Nursery School, Great Yarmouth was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 26 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.6%. There are about 17.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 61% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. St. George's Primary School & St. George's Nursery School, Great Yarmouth 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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