St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate

Academy converter·Primary school Margate, Kent·CT9 4BU
Composite score
63.9
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#2,859
National rank
#407
In South East
#103
In Kent
Top 20%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
75%
% achieving higher RWM
13%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
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
70%
43 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.43
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
101
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.43
00.511.52
1 per place
0.8520220.9620230.8320241.0020251.432026

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

Kent does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
294
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
34.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
28.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
22.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,704
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate

St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate is a primary school in Margate, Kent, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 294 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. 75% 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 17.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 20% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 13% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 43 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.8%. There are about 21.4 pupils per teacher. St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate 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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