The St Teresa Catholic Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Barking and Dagenham·RM8 2XJ
Composite score
69.1
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#1,885
National rank
#487
In London
#5
In Barking and Dagenham
Top 13%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
83%
% achieving higher RWM
13%
Reading average scaled score
110.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
83%
36 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.20
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
78
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.23
00.511.5
1 per place
1.3020221.2320231.1320240.9720251.202026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for The St Teresa Catholic Primary School yet. Barking and Dagenham does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
224
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
13.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
54.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
9.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
24.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,050
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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The St Teresa Catholic Primary School at a glance

Located in Barking and Dagenham, The St Teresa Catholic Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 224 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 83% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the national average of 61%. That is down 1.0 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 among the top 13% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 110 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 13% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 83% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (36 first choices for 30 places). Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 24.1 pupils per teacher. The St Teresa Catholic Primary School 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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