St Catherine's Catholic Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne·NE2 1PS
Composite score
21.4
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#14,314
National rank
#740
In North East
#67
In Newcastle upon Tyne
Top 97%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
33%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
98.0
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
23
any preference, for 11 places
Applications from another council area
13%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.25
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.7520230.9220240.7520251.002026

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

Every child who put St Catherine's Catholic Primary School 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
164
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
28.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
45.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,902
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St Catherine's Catholic Primary School

St Catherine's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 164 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 33% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 29.0 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 102 in reading and 98 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made St Catherine's Catholic Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 11 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.5%. There are about 17.1 pupils per teacher. St Catherine's 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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