St Joseph's Catholic Academy, Goldenhill

St Joseph's Catholic Academy, Goldenhill at a glance

Located in Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, St Joseph's Catholic Academy, Goldenhill is a primary school, classified by the DfE as an academy converter with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 241 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 59% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — broadly in line with the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 3.0 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 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 40% 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 Joseph's Catholic Academy, Goldenhill 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 further down the page.