St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Bishop Auckland

School overview

St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Bishop Auckland is a primary school serving Bishop Auckland, County Durham, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 206 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 40% 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 23.0 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 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Bishop Auckland is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 35 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 8.9%. There are about 20.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 53% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Bishop Auckland 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.