St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury

Academy converter·Primary school Banbury, Oxfordshire·OX16 0ET
Composite score
41.8
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#10,237
National rank
#1531
In South East
#162
In Oxfordshire
Top 69%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
8%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
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
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
11 first choices, 11 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
36
any preference, for 11 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8520221.0020230.9320240.9020251.002026

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

Every child who put St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
210
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
28.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
38.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,436
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, Banbury

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury is a primary school in Banbury, Oxfordshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 210 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 21.0 percentage points year on 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 104 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 8% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury their first choice was offered one of its 11 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.5%. There are about 18.6 pupils per teacher. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury 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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