St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Dudley·DY2 7PW
Composite score
68.6
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#1,957
National rank
#163
In West Midlands
#7
In Dudley
Top 13%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
93%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
112.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
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
90%
31 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
95
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.52
00.511.522.5
1 per place
1.7720221.9320231.6320241.5520251.032026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Joseph's Catholic Primary School yet. Dudley 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
250
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
57.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,894
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Dudley, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 250 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 93% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 16.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 13% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 112 in reading and 109 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 31 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 21.1 pupils per teacher. St Joseph's Catholic 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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