St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead

Academy converter·Primary school Windsor and Maidenhead·SL6 7EG
Composite score
30.6
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#13,271
National rank
#1983
In South East
#31
In Windsor and Maidenhead
Top 90%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
47%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
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
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
100%
16 first choices, 20 places
First choices per place
0.80
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
73
any preference, for 20 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.05
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7020220.8720230.8220240.7520250.802026

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

Every child who put St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead 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
5–11
Pupils on roll
289
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
20.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.9
Typical primary: 20.7

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

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Location

School overview

St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead is a primary school serving Windsor and Maidenhead, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 289 pupils aged 5 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 47% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 6.0 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 107 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 16 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.3%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead 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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