St Peter's Catholic Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Stoke-on-Trent·ST6 3HL
Composite score
42.6
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#9,986
National rank
#1058
In West Midlands
#41
In Stoke-on-Trent
Top 68%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
53%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
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
100%
30 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
47
any preference, for 30 places
Last place offered lived
1.06 mi
straight line, 2026 intake · 1711 m
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.43
00.511.52
1 per place
1.0020221.3120231.1720241.4320251.002026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2026 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
240
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
57.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
67.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,887
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St Peter's Catholic Academy

St Peter's Catholic Academy is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 240 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 53% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 7.0 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 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Peter's Catholic Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 30 families who put it first were offered a place. The council's own allocation figures show the last child offered a place for 2026 lived 1.06 miles away in a straight line — that distance is not a fixed catchment and moves each year. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 19.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 58% 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 Peter's Catholic Academy 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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