St Saviour's Catholic Primary and Nursery School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester·CH66 2BD
Composite score
57.8
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#4,601
National rank
#605
In North West
#31
In Cheshire West and Chester
Top 31%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
71%
% achieving higher RWM
10%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
25 first choices, 28 places
First choices per place
0.89
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
40
any preference, for 28 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020230.9520240.9320250.892026

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

Every child who put St Saviour's Catholic Primary and Nursery School 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
219
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
28.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
21.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,949
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

St Saviour's Catholic Primary and Nursery School is a primary school serving Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 219 pupils aged 2 to 11 on roll. 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%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 8.0 percentage points year on 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 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 10% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made St Saviour's Catholic Primary and Nursery School their first choice was offered one of its 28 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.5%. There are about 19.3 pupils per teacher. St Saviour's Catholic Primary and Nursery 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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