St Joseph's Catholic Academy

St Joseph's Catholic Academy at a glance

Located in Stockton-on-Tees, St Joseph's Catholic Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 297 pupils aged 3 to 11. 56% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 14.0 percentage points compared with 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 103 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Joseph's Catholic Academy is oversubscribed: about 10 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 38 first choices for 37 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 26.0 pupils per teacher. St Joseph'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.