St Josephs Catholic Primary School
Primary · London · WC2B 5NA
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 22 February 2024
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133 pupils · 60% of 223 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Catholic
- Free school meals
- 54.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 41.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 20.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.7% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 100041
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.89 first-choice applications per place18 places offered · 16 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
22 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
86% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 14% moved to another state school
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 23 April 2025: S5 Inspection
- 21 February 2024: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
- 10 October 2018: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
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- Odyssey House School - Bloomsbury
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- St Alban's Church of England Primary School
- Christopher Hatton Primary School
- Soho Parish CofE Primary School
- Thomas Coram Centre