St Charles' Catholic Primary School, Tudhoe

Academy converter·Primary school Spennymoor, County Durham·DL16 6SL
Composite score
47.4
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#8,185
National rank
#454
In North East
#101
In County Durham
Top 56%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
73%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
88%
34 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.13
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
52
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9120220.8920231.0020241.0320251.132026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Charles' Catholic Primary School, Tudhoe yet. County Durham 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
233
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
1.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,837
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St Charles' Catholic Primary School, Tudhoe

St Charles' Catholic Primary School, Tudhoe is a primary school in Spennymoor, County Durham, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 233 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 73% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 19.0 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 in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Competition for places is real here - 88% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (34 first choices for 30 places). Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 22.8 pupils per teacher. St Charles' Catholic Primary School, Tudhoe 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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